Senior Security Engineer

At nu Harbor, we help organizations navigate an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence. By combining expert guidance, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships, we make security stronger, more effective, and easier to understand. We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges, helping clients succeed, and continuously improving alongside a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.

Cybersecurity for the public good

At nu Harbor, we help organizations navigate an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence. By combining expert guidance, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships, we make security stronger, more effective, and easier to understand. We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges, helping clients succeed, and continuously improving alongside a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll serve as a senior technical leader within nu Harbor's Engineering team, responsible for the platforms, architectures, and integrations that power our managed security services.

This role combines systems engineering, platform optimization, automation, architecture, and client engagement. You'll own the engineering foundation that enables our SOC, Detection Engineering, and Managed Services teams to deliver exceptional outcomes for clients. You'll also mentor fellow engineers, drive technical excellence, and help shape the future of nu Harbor's managed services platform ecosystem.

In this role, you will:

• Live by nu Harbor's core values:
  Help Clients Win, Always Improve, and Protect the House
• Design, implement, and maintain the security platforms that underpin nu Harbor's managed service offerings
• Ensure client environments are architected, configured, monitored, and maintained according to nu Harbor and vendor best practices
• Lead the onboarding, normalization, and optimization of security data sources across managed platforms
• Ensure telemetry is properly parsed, enriched, and aligned with platform-specific data models
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex architectural, performance, and integration challenges
• Independently identify and drive high-impact engineering initiatives with minimal direction
• Build scalable, repeatable, and multi-tenant engineering solutions that benefit nu Harbor and its clients
• Support the implementation and operation of SIEM, EDR, identity, automation, and case management platforms
• Develop automation workflows and integrations that improve operational efficiency and service delivery
• Partner with Security Operations and Detection Engineering teams to improve platform effectiveness and client outcomes
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients, helping them maximize the value of their security investments
• Lead client-facing technical discussions, architecture reviews, and strategic planning conversations
• Develop recommendations that strengthen security posture, improve resiliency, and support organizational goals
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the broader Engineering team
• Contribute to operational standards, onboarding processes, and best practices for new and existing technologies
• Support the evaluation, design, and implementation of emerging technologies within nu Harbor's service portfolio
• Maintain platform health through lifecycle management, patching, hardening, and vulnerability remediation
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation

We're looking for someone who brings these minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in Information Technology, Security Engineering, or a related field OR quivalent practical experience supported by relevant industry certifications
• 5+ years of experience engineering and supporting enterprise security platforms
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering and engineering Splunk environments, including Splunk Enterprise Security
• Experience onboarding, normalizing, and managing security telemetry across multiple data sources
• Experience working with common security…