Cybersecurity Engineer V

Cybersecurity Engineer V

Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer V to lead advanced cybersecurity engineering, security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen the organization's security posture.

This role serves as a senior technical resource across cybersecurity disciplines, supporting secure technology operations for GSOC Shared Services and the broader Family of Companies. You will help evaluate, implement, optimize, and manage cybersecurity platforms, security controls, and manage security services across enterprise environments.

This opportunity is ideal for an experienced cybersecurity professional who enjoys leading complex security engineering initiatives, mentoring technical team members, partnering across infrastructure and application teams, and driving practical risk reduction in a mission-critical environment.

Successful candidates will bring expert-level cybersecurity knowledge, strong technical leadership, and hands-on experience across security operations, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, cloud security, endpoint protection, containerized or virtualized environments, and enterprise security architecture.

As a Cybersecurity Engineer V, you will play a key role in leading cybersecurity engineering, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and enterprise security improvement efforts.

You will:

• Serve as a technical subject matter expert across cybersecurity disciplines for internal teams, vendors, external stakeholders, and partners across the Family of Companies.
• Lead implementation, administration, and optimization of SIEM, EDR, security monitoring, and other cybersecurity platforms.
• Develop and maintain detection rules, alerting logic, dashboards, threat intelligence integrations, and security monitoring content.
• Conduct threat hunting, analyze indicators of compromise, and support proactive identification of security risks.
• Lead cybersecurity incident investigation, coordination, response, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and incident response playbook development.
• Manage vulnerability scanning, assessment, remediation prioritization, validation testing, metrics, and risk reduction reporting.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise security technologies, controls, secure configuration baselines, hardening standards, and security automation.
• Implement and maintain security controls within Azure and other cloud environments, including cloud monitoring, governance, detection, and architecture review support.
• Lead endpoint and infrastructure security activities, including endpoint security administration, least-privilege initiatives, endpoint hardening, and collaboration with Infrastructure and EUC teams.
• Review new technologies and projects for security requirements and help ensure controls align with business, regulatory, and industry requirements.
• Develop and maintain cybersecurity documentation, including policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, technical baselines, and program documentation.
• Lead implementation and management of enterprise data security capabilities, including data classification, protection policies, monitoring, reporting, and incident response.
• Engineer and maintain secure containerized and virtualized environments through security controls, hardening standards, and aligned monitoring practices.
• Partner with MSSPs, third-party SOCs, consultants, professional services organizations, vendors, and value-added resellers to evaluate, implement, optimize, and manage cybersecurity services and platforms.

At this senior level, this role also:

• Mentors cybersecurity professionals and serves as a senior technical resource for the cybersecurity team.
• Provides technical guidance to Infrastructure, EUC, application, cloud, and cross-functional project teams.
• Assists cybersecurity leadership with strategic planning, security roadmap development, and program maturity efforts.
• Leverages blue team, red team, or purple team experience to support penetration testing, adversary emulation, threat hunting, and control validation activities.
• Stays current with security trends, technologies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of experience in cyber or information security; twelve or more years of relevant experience may also be considered.
• Expert-level knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, security engineering principles, enterprise technologies, and industry best practices.
• Strong technical skills and understanding of security events across multiple operating system and appliance platforms.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical issues to both technical and…