Cyber security Engineer - Threat and Incident response

Our client is seeking a Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to join the Incident Response team! As a technical leader and subject matter expert for assigned business unit, the Senior Principal will be a key influencer in the achievement of strategic alignment and provide a positive impact on business value. The Senior Principal will work with leaders in the business unit to identify initiatives with high impact which drive the business strategy forward.

The person in this role is also expected to be an energetic, dynamic and innovative leader and influencer, acting as an avid promoter of process improvement to enhance productivity and performance of assigned business area. The Senior Principal is an established and recognized figure both internally and externally. This person will represent the broader community and serve as a de-facto ambassador for the organization.

It will be important for the Senior Principal to maintain a strong network in the community.

This position requires working onsite 4 days per week (Monday-Thursday). This position requires someone participate in incident investigations, covering detection, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.

Location: Irving, TX

Duration: Full- time

Interview: Onsite.

Type: W-2 Contract Only – C2C, third-party, or sponsorship arrangements are not supported at this time.

Candidates Local to the DFW are given importance.

• Develop and enhance incident response tools, scripts, and frameworks to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of detection, response and investigations.
• Conduct and enhance memory/network/host/cloud forensics, malware reverse-engineering, and automated triage.
• Create customized tactical and strategic remediation plans related to alerts and incidents identified inside the internal landscape as well as identified in the wild.
• Convey analytical findings through finished technical reports post incident.
• Identify and codify attacker TTPs and IOCs, feeding them into detection pipelines and IR playbooks.
• Gather and analyze cybersecurity data, technology tools and risk systems to identify security exposures.
• Lead or participate in tabletop exercises, Purple Team sessions, and threat fencing simulation.
• Perform analysis of various log sources, SIEM alerts, IDS/IPS alerts, host activity, and network traffic to identify suspicious or anomalous activity.
• Stay proactively ahead of the threat landscape—monitor zero-days, vulnerabilities, and advanced persistent threats.

• Experience with leading cross-functional and/or global initiatives from start to finish.
• Advanced knowledge of business acumen and a deep understanding of business implications of decisions.
• In-depth understanding of company values, mission, vision and strategic direction.
• Comprehensive knowledge of business operations.
• Recognized as an expert across the business unit.
• Experience building detection rules and associated.
• Experience with threat intelligence techniques and detection rules, and a variety of forensic analysis tools in incident response investigations to determine the extent and scope of compromise.
• Strong experience conducting or managing incident response investigations for organizations, investigating targeted threats such as the Advanced Persistent Threat, Organized Crime, and Hacktivists.
• Strong ability to independently develop and implement risk hunting methodologies.
• Skilled in network, endpoint, memory, disk, and cloud forensics—with documented lead roles in complex investigations.
• Working knowledge of global cyber threats, threat actors, adversary tactics, techniques and procedures.
• Experience with TTPs, IOCs, and the MITRE ATT&CK and RE&ACT framework.
• Strong understanding of cloud incident response on platforms like Azure or AWS including working knowledge of how to implement logging and monitoring within them.
• Consistent experience on case management, following workflows, communicating incidents, and retrieving necessary data.
• Verifiably skilled in scripting to build or improve incident response.
• Demonstrated experience constructing and testing APIs.
• Experienced in NIST incident response roles and…