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Lead Security Engineer - Cyber Security

Relativity
Illinois, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Aug 2025
💰 $226,000/yr($150,000/yr$226,000/yr)

About the role

Posting Type

Remote

Job Overview

As a Lead Cyber Security Engineer, you will ensure the security of Relativity’s network and infrastructure.  In this role, the main responsibilities will be to investigate and analyze emerging threats against our assets, identities, and clients.  You will also provide actionable remediation guidance to end users and collaborate with highly skilled cyber experts to anticipate and mitigate evolving threats using world-class toolsets and next generation capabilities. 

Job Description and Requirements

Responsibilities:

  • Review, validation, and triage of alerts and technical analysis of log data from a diverse inventory of sensors, correlated signature logic, and threat intelligence sources.  

  • Assess the impact of security events by leveraging host, cloud and network-based indicators and evidence to deliver actionable incident escalations.   

  • Develop and deploy detection and prevention signatures with response actions as part of a layered defensive strategy leveraging multiple technologies and data types.  

  • Build automation to search through collected telemetry to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions.  

  • Create Standard Operating Procedures, SOC playbooks, configuration guides, and secure standards.  

  • Automate incident handling processes.  

  • Engage in the continuous research of emerging threats and apply appropriate countermeasures within the context of a rapidly changing environment.  

  • Serve as a subject matter expert in the mechanism and analysis of observed malicious activity.  

  • Clearly document and communicate investigation findings to both technical and executive stakeholders.  

  • Identify and automate away technical burden.  

  • Build automation to deploy, operate and connect multiple cyber security tools and applications.  

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in a Security Operations Center, Incident Response, or Threat Detection team for Cloud applications and corporate networks  

  • Exposure to threat detection development and tuning   

  • Experience in software design and development  

  • DevSecOps experience  

  • Ability to perform threat hunting, threat emulation, and/or purple teaming exercises  

  • Familiarity with industry standard security devices and their configuration   

  • Experience in reverse engineering malicious code to explore infection and propagation mechanisms   

  • Experience with threat intelligence tools and processes  

  • Certifications: One or more of the following certifications are preferred (GCFA, GCIA, GCIH, GNFA, GREM, OSCP, OSEP, OSED, OSWE, OSDA, OSCE3, CompTIA Security+, CCNA CyberOps, or CEH)  

  • 5+ years of experience in a Security Operations Center, Incident Response, or Threat Detection team  

  • Strong cyber incident response skills (such as: Network forensics, memory forensics, and/or packet analysis)   

  • Ability to read, write and analyze PowerShell, C#, and Python  

  • Capability to independently manage the prioritization of complex security events   

  • Advanced understanding of common SOC/CIRT operational processes and documentation   

  • Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, network services, cryptography, cloud, and web application attacks   <

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