Senior Cyber Security Engineer Job at Tek Ninjas, Dallas, TX

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  • Tek Ninjas
  • Dallas, TX

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise security operations, security architecture, threat management, and cloud security. The ideal candidate will play a key role in protecting enterprise infrastructure, applications, networks, and cloud platforms from cyber threats while ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage enterprise cybersecurity solutions and security controls
  • Monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to security incidents and threats
  • Lead vulnerability assessments, penetration testing coordination, and remediation activities
  • Develop and maintain cybersecurity policies, standards, and procedures
  • Implement and manage SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, DLP, and endpoint security solutions
  • Secure enterprise cloud environments including AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Configure and maintain IAM, MFA, encryption, and Zero Trust security frameworks
  • Conduct threat hunting and analyze security events using SIEM platforms
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, network, DevOps, and application teams to implement security best practices
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and CIS benchmarks
  • Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response planning
  • Mentor junior security engineers and provide technical leadership

Mandatory Skills

  • Minimum 3-4 years of experience securing cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Mandatory experience in Cloud Security (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  • Experience implementing cloud-native security controls and best practices
  • Strong understanding of IAM (Identity and Access Management), Cloud network security, Security groups, VPCs/VNETs, and firewall configurations, Encryption and key management, Cloud logging and monitoring.
  • Experience with cloud security tools such as AWS Security Hub or AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel / Microsoft Sentinel, Prisma Cloud, Wiz.

Preferred Experience

  • Experience in SOC environments and incident response teams.
  • Experience with enterprise cloud migration security.
  • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat intelligence platforms.
  • Experience supporting global or multi-region infrastructures.
  • Prior leadership or team management experience preferred.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or related field.
  • Master's degree preferred.

Preferred Certifications

  • AWS Certified Security/Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate/Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
  • CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional)

About TekNinjas

TekNinjas is a global IT staffing partner placing skilled professionals with leading enterprises and system integrators across the US, Canada, UK, India, and the EU. We focus on the right fit - not just the fast fill - and stay engaged with our consultants well beyond the start date.

We're the right partners in your success.

TekNinjas is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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