Senior Security Engineer, Cyber Defense Platforms
$90,000–$157,500 year
Hybrid · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Senior Security Engineer, Cyber Defense Platforms responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining endpoint hardening standards across workstations and servers, aligned with CIS benchmarks, internal standards, and risk-based guidance. Reduce enterprise attack surface by disabling unnecessary services, features, protocols, and tooling across endpoint environments; engineer and support execution control mechanisms (application control, script control, and prevention of unauthorized software); partner with NetSec to reduce endpoint-to-network exposure and with DataSec to enable endpoint-level controls; identify unapproved or risky endpoint software and work with stakeholders on remediation, allow-listing, or removal paths; collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure scalable, reliable controls; contribute to security architecture documentation, standards, and roadmaps related to endpoint and defense platforms.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, endpoint security, or defensive cyber roles
- Strong hands-on experience with endpoint security platforms (e.g., EDR, application control, configuration management, hardening frameworks)
- Experience with Zero Trust principles, endpoint-to-network control models, or execution control technologies
- Experience designing and deploying security controls across large scale multi-region environments
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