IT Security Engineer IV

About the role

Title: IT Security Engineer IV- DFIR. Location: Remote. Work is expected to be done 100% remote. Duration: 12+ months (possibility of extension). Pay rate: $80.00–$83/hour DOE.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and lead critical, escalated security incidents: coordinating communications, executing the Incident Response Plan, and delivering clear, timely status updates to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Perform comprehensive host, network, and cloud forensic analysis to determine root cause, scope, and impact, ensuring containment is validated against Client control-testing standard before an incident is closed.
• Analyze and correlate signals across SIEM, EDR, and other platform logs to triage and validate threats.
• Develop, maintain, and improve incident response playbooks and runbooks in partnership with the SOC's Analysis Champ and other capability owners.
• Operate within existing automated workflows in ServiceNow SIR, following and refining established processes.
• Flag detection gaps and false-positive patterns identified during live incidents to Detection Engineering for tuning and new detection development.
• Use outputs from Mate AI SOC platform to inform triage and investigation decisions.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Risk to ensure response workflows meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Assess vulnerabilities, propose remediation, and stay current on emerging threats and countermeasures.
• Provide training and mentorship to other incident responders on best practices.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and help build metrics that drive continuous program improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field (required/preferred).

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans)
• Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity)
• 401(k)-retirement savings
• Life & disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Identity theft protection
• Legal support
• Auto and home insurance
• Pet insurance
• Employee discounts with preferred vendors