Junior Security Engineer​/Onsite

$60000 - $70000

This is an urgent, full-time hybrid Security Operations Engineer opportunity in Addison, TX with a large organization. You’ll join an established security operations team responsible for protecting a large enterprise environment using Crowd Strike Falcon, Splunk SIEM, and an email security gateway, with a strong focus on incident response, threat hunting, detection, and security engineering.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• 3–5 years of combined IT and cybersecurity experience, including experience within a SOC or security engineering environment

• Hands-on experience with Splunk or a comparable SIEM for alert triage, correlation, investigation, and root cause analysis

• Proven experience supporting major incident response activities

• Experience with EDR detection, investigation, and response, preferably Crowd Strike Falcon

• Strong written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, concise language for non-technical stakeholders

• Ability and willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, including weekends

• Security certification such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CEH, or equivalent

• Experience with digital forensics and/or threat hunting

• Scripting experience using Python, Power Shell, or Bash

• Experience developing security detection rules and SOAR playbooks

• Experience working with a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider

• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework

• Experience with enterprise security operations and incident management processes

• 65% Hands On: Investigate and correlate suspicious events, determine root cause, support major incident response efforts, perform proactive and reactive threat hunting, and recommend improvements to security controls and procedures

• 35% Team
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Serve as an escalation point and resource for junior analysts, partner with cross-functional teams, conduct business impact analysis, and participate in incident response exercises and drills

• Full-time, hybrid opportunity in Addison, TX

• Opportunity to work with enterprise-scale security technologies including Crowd Strike Falcon and Splunk

• Exposure to global security operations, incident response, threat hunting, and detection engineering

• Opportunity for career growth from SOC operations into a broader security engineering role

• Bonus eligible

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• Vacation Time

• Stock Options

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy.

Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.