Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Nexigen is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical leader across digital forensics, penetration testing, and compliance, while also supporting the sales team as a technical resource for security-related client engagements. This is a hybrid role suited to an experienced security professional who is equally comfortable investigating an incident, breaking into a system to find its weaknesses, mapping controls to a compliance framework, and explaining security value to a prospective client. The candite must be comfortable wearing multiple hats at the same time., Digital Forensics

• Lead forensic investigations of security incidents, including evidence acquisition, chain-of-custody documentation, and root-cause analysis.
• Analyze compromised systems, network traffic, and logs to reconstruct attack timelines and identify indicators of compromise.
• Produce clear, defensible incident reports for technical, legal, and executive audiences.

Penetration Testing

• Plan and execute penetration tests and vulnerability assessments across networks, applications, and cloud environments.
• Simulate real-world attack techniques to identify exploitable weaknesses before adversaries do.
• Deliver findings with prioritized, actionable remediation guidance for internal teams and clients.

Compliance

• Support audits and certification efforts against frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, or PCI DSS as applicable.
• Maintain security policies, control documentation, and evidence for internal and external audits.
• Track remediation of compliance gaps and advise stakeholders on regulatory risk.

Consulting

• Provide support to internal teams on cyber security related topics
• Provide support to Nexigen’s clients on cyber security engagements

Sales Support

• Act as a technical subject-matter expert during client and prospect calls, translating security capabilities into business value.
• Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, and security questionnaires with accurate technical content.
• Partner with the sales team to scope security engagements and set realistic client expectations.

• 5+ years of experience in cyber security, with direct experience in forensics and penetration testing.
• Batchlor’s degree in Cyber Security or related Computer Science or Information Systems degree
• Working knowledge of at least one major compliance framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53).
• Hands-on experience with forensic and pen testing tools (e.g., EnCase, FTK, Autopsy, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk to non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of advanced networking (802.1x, Radius Configurations, MFA) and secure network architecture.
• Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive investigations and client data.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to stay calm and methodical under incident-response pressure.
• Collaborative team player who works well across engineering, legal, and sales stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage multiple engagements and priorities independently.
• Client-facing presence and comfort building trust and rapport with prospects and customers.
• Solves problems individually and in a team setting.
• Comfort engaging directly with clients or prospects in a pre-sales or advisory capacity.
• Relevant certifications preferred (not required): GCFA, GCFE, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, or CISA.

Additional requirements:

Interpersonal skills: such as telephony skills, communication skills, active listening and customer-care

• Diagnosis skills of technical issues

• Ability to multi-task and adapt to changes quickly

• Technical awareness: ability to match resources to technical issues appropriately

• Service awareness of all organization’s key IT services for which support is being provided

• Understanding of support tools, techniques, and how technology is used to provide IT services

• Typing skills to ensure quick and accurate entry of service request details

• Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast moving environment

• Typing skills to ensure quick and accurate entry of service request details which requires finger and wrist dexterity in a repetitive motion.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 80% of your working day.

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office and up and down stairs to access hardware storage rooms, office machinery, etc.

• Constantly positions self to maintain computers in the lab, including under the desks and in the server closet.

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, clients and contractors and must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

• Must be able to detect and/or recognize software, hardware and operating systems on or used to operate computers.

16 East 11th Street, Newport, KY 41071 Hybrid work $90,000 - $115,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Referral program
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance, * 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance