Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Pellera Technologies is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer.

This full-time, permanent role with Pellera Technologies offers an exciting opportunity within the Cybersecurity Strategy & Defense practice. As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will serve as a trusted advisor to Pellera’s client base, applying your expertise in defensive cybersecurity operations. This includes proactive threat hunting, incident response, and technical SOC leadership. You will also be involved in deploying and customizing security solutions tailored to unique client environments. Pellera Technologies is committed to team member growth, offering extensive cross-technology and certification training.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support for enterprise-level security solutions in the cloud, such as SIEM, EDR, and Vulnerability Management.
• Act as the technical lead and conduit between client security operations and external SOC teams.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting across cloud and hybrid environments, utilizing the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Create and conduct threat modeling and adversary simulations to identify detection gaps and enhance SOC coverage.
• Manage and investigate alerts and incidents using EDR/XDR toolsets.
• Build complex queries and custom hunting use cases.
• Conduct incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reporting, collaborating with stakeholders and regulatory compliance teams.
• Troubleshoot product issues as they arise.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging services and technologies.

Knowledge & Competencies

• Strong proficiency in building, tuning, and managing analytics rules, workbooks, hunting queries, and playbooks.
• Demonstrated experience conducting proactive threat hunting across cloud and hybrid environments using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Solid understanding of log ingestion pipelines, normalization schemas (like ASIM), and data connector management within SIEM tools.
• Deep familiarity with common attacker techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs), and the ability to translate them into high-fidelity detection logic.
• Strong grasp of core networking protocols and security technologies, including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP(S), TLS, IPSec, and firewalls.

Education & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a professional cybersecurity capacity.
• 5+ years of experience working with SIEM (Azure Sentinel preferred) and EDR (Crowdstrike preferred) solutions.
• Azure Security and Crowdstrike certifications are preferred.
• Industry leading certifications are a plus, especially via GIAC / SANS.

Work Environment

Remote within the United States.

Total Rewards

Pellera Technologies offers a comprehensive total rewards package including base salary, quarterly bonus, healthcare benefits, 401k match, PTO/holiday, training/development, and promotional opportunities.

Key skills/competency

• Cybersecurity
• Threat Hunting
• Incident Response
• SIEM
• EDR/XDR
• MITRE ATT&CK
• Cloud Security
• Log Management
• Network Protocols
• Security Analytics