Senior Information Security Engineer

About Talus Cybersecurity

Government contractors use our services to prepare for CMMC assessments and NIST 800-171 compliance. Based in Greenville, Talus Cybersecurity also trains client staff and runs simulated phishing campaigns. We started in 2000 and have grown to about 160 people.

The role

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior Information Security Engineer. This hire will run our application security program: threat modelling, code scanning, pen test follow-up and developer guidance. The company is based in Greenville, the US. The team is spread across multiple countries. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

In your first few months you will

• Maintain EDR coverage with CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Triage bug bounty reports from HackerOne or Bugcrowd
• Automate security checks in CI/CD pipelines
• Manage SAST, DAST and dependency scanning with tools such as Semgrep, Snyk, Burp Suite or GitHub Advanced Security
• Respond to security incidents and lead the technical investigation
• Build detections and response playbooks in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or Elastic

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in security engineering, application security or a related engineering role
• Strong knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 and common web vulnerabilities
• Hands-on cloud security experience in AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience with SIEM, EDR or vulnerability management tools
• Programming or scripting ability in Python, Go or similar
• Understanding of networking, TLS, PKI and authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0)

Preferred qualifications

• OSCP, OSWE, CISSP or a cloud security certification (AWS Security Specialty, AZ-500)
• Kubernetes and container security (Falco, OPA Gatekeeper)
• Malware analysis or digital forensics background

Why work with us

• Paid time off
• Annual rate review
• Long-term engagement
• Company laptop

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Talus Cybersecurity.