Sr. Cybersecurity Threat Engineer - Remote

Job Overview

This Cybersecurity Engineer Senior – Threat Engineer focuses on proactively identifying, investigating and neutralizing sophisticated cyber threats that evade traditional defenses. Responsible for threat research, threat hunting, digital forensics, malware analysis, full-cycle incident response, and leading purple team exercises to collaboratively test, validate and enhance detection/response capabilities. The position plays a critical role in minimizing adversary dwell time, closing detection gaps, and strengthening organizational resilience against advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware, nation-state actors, and emerging attack techniques.

The role functions as part of the Cybersecurity Operations team and collaborates cross-functionally with Threat Intelligence, Threat Emulation, GRC, Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering teams to secure and defend against existing and emerging threats to the organization. The role is expected to independently lead engagements from conception to completion, communicate technical details to partners and senior leadership, mentor junior staff, and provide technical direction to the program

Job Responsibilities

Incident Response & Containment

• Serve as lead or escalation responder for high-severity incidents, including ransomware, data breaches, APT intrusions, and insider threats.
• Lead scoping, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts in coordination with cross-functional teams.
• Reconstruct attack timelines, correlate events across sources, and produce detailed root cause analyses and executive reports.

Advanced Threat Research

• Partner with Threat Intelligence to conduct in-depth research on emerging threats, attack vectors, threat actor TTPs, and indicators of compromise.
• Identify emerging and persistent threats to the organization's networks, systems, and applications.
• Map adversary behaviors to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and Cyber Kill C