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Security Engineer

Job in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, 37247, USA
Listing for: Forward Progress Staffing
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-07
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Network Security
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 150000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

100% Remote, Full Time but must reside near Nashville, TN OR New York, NY

Pay Transparency: $120-150K/yr

Seeking a Security Engineer to help build and strengthen our security operations programs—safeguarding our brand, our people, and our digital assets. In this role, you will design and implement security solutions across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. By leveraging your expertise in cybersecurity and knowledge of common attack vectors, you will enhance visibility, threat correlation, and incident response capabilities throughout our technology landscape.

As a key contributor to our cloud-first strategy, you will play a critical role in shaping and advancing our overall security posture.

Responsibilities
  • Investigate and contextualize security events from numerous data sources
  • Help detect, respond, and remediate security events and incidents
  • Create automated data correlation and triage processes to reduce alert-to-fix time
  • Develop remediation and orchestration efficiencies across the security stack - including endpoint, network, identity, and application
  • Perform e-discovery tasks in support of Legal and HR investigations
  • Respond to user requests for security-related issues and concerns
  • Improve current visibility by configuring existing logging and alerting policies
  • Evaluate and select additional tools and services
  • Contribute to SIEM tuning for reliable alerting
  • Perform vulnerability triage and assignment
  • Engage in proactive threat hunting to identify risks not automatically captured by scans
  • Have a meaningful and positive impact on the security of colleagues and clients
  • Be challenged to identify, build, test, and deploy solutions in real-life, not in theory
  • Be encouraged to innovate and take ownership
  • Be given the opportunity to rapidly accelerate security, technology, and management skills
  • Have the freedom to experiment with novel problem-solving approaches
  • Contribute to all security-related initiatives - both tactical and strategic
  • Be exposed to emerging security and business technologies
  • Have access to best-in-class tooling and people
  • Grow and learn on the job every day
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on information security-related escalations
  • Maintain awareness of trends in various security domains
  • Collaborate with other teams to improve security posture, risk remediation, and threat awareness
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Security Operations
  • Experience with Incident response, security event triage, investigations, forensics
  • Fluency with endpoint operating systems (Windows/Mac/Linux) and command line tools
  • Experience with log analysis, event aggregation, security event data management, SIEM tuning, Microsoft Sentinel
  • Experience with security automation and orchestration, threat intelligence utilization
  • Experience with e-discovery tools and processes
  • Experience responding to phishing, scam, and imposter campaigns
  • Experience with endpoint security tooling and MDM solutions
  • Network engineering, secure architecture, network operations (firewalls, switches, etc.)
  • Cloud infrastructure operations and architecture (AWS a plus)
  • Identity management and authentication protocols
  • Remediation strategies, system hardening, vulnerability management
  • Enterprise information technology including Active Directory/Azure AD, Exchange, Office 365, servers (Windows, SQL/DB, Linux, VM, Citrix, App, Web), device/asset management, Service Now
  • Experience with posture and threat management of third-party SaaS platforms
  • Technical understanding of enterprise EDR tools
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