Cybersecurity Engineer

• Valkyrie has a need for a Cybersecurity Engineer who will own, implement, maintain, and improve cybersecurity services and technical security controls across Valkyrie’s technology environment.
• This role performs advanced security investigations, assesses technical risk, supports incident response, and serves as an escalation resource for complex cybersecurity issues. The position requires broad technical knowledge, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, sound judgment, and technical curiosity.
• This role has the option to be REMOTE., The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for owning assigned cybersecurity services, implementing and maintaining security controls, investigating security events, and reducing cybersecurity risks.

This role will:

• Own and administer assigned cybersecurity services, platforms, and technical security controls across cloud, endpoint, identity, server, network, and related enterprise environments.
• Implement, maintain, and improve security controls that reduce organizational risk and support business and regulatory requirements.
• Investigate security alerts, suspicious activity, phishing, malware, account compromise, and other potential cybersecurity incidents.
• Perform advanced technical analysis and root-cause investigation during security events and support containment, remediation, recovery, and lessons-learned activities.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments, analyze technical risk, coordinate remediation activities, and validate corrective actions.
• Perform risk-based security assessments of systems, configurations, technologies, and proposed technical changes.
• Develop scripts, API integrations, queries, detection logic, and automation that improve security monitoring, investigation, response, and operational efficiency.
• Support security architecture, identity and access management, system hardening, endpoint security, email security, cloud security, logging, monitoring, and related security capabilities.
• Create and maintain cybersecurity procedures, technical standards, investigation documentation, detection content, and operational knowledge.
• Communicate security findings, risks, recommendations, and incident status to technical teams, vendors, business stakeholders, and organizational leadership.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Compliance & Governance, IT Support, and other teams to implement and validate effective security controls.
• Responsibly use approved AI-enabled tools to support research, analysis, investigation, scripting, automation, documentation, and other technical activities., * Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Must comply with all Valkyrie security policies and procedures.

Travel Requirements

• Occasional travel may be required to support security assessments, incident response, technology implementations, site activities, or other business needs.
• Occasional work outside normal business hours may be required for planned implementations, security incidents, or other critical technical issues.
• If position requires travel by domestic flight or access to secure federal facilities/military bases, candidate must be able to obtain (by start of position) and maintain appropriate identification credentials, such as REAL ID. (More information regarding REAL ID can be found: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id )

• Must have at least a minimum of six (6) years of relevant professional Information Technology experience, including at least four (4) years of hands-on cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, or comparable technical security experience.
• Must have hands-on experience administering, implementing, or operating enterprise cybersecurity technologies and technical security controls in production environments.
• Must have strong knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals, including identity and access management, endpoint security, vulnerability management, network security, logging and monitoring, system hardening, and incident response.
• Must have experience investigating security events and performing technical analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Must be proficient with PowerShell, Python, APIs, query languages, or other scripting and automation technologies used for security administration and analysis.
• Must have the ability to independently research, assess, communicate, and own complex cybersecurity issues through resolution., * Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, preferred.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, email security, identity security, or other enterprise security platforms, preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft security technologies such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Purview, or related capabilities, preferred.
• Experience securing Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows, Linux, endpoint, identity, cloud, or hybrid enterprise environments, preferred.
• Experience supporting incident response, threat hunting, phishing investigations, malware analysis, or account-compromise investigations, preferred.
• Experience developing security detections, queries, automation, integrations, or technical security improvements, preferred.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or comparable cybersecurity and regulatory frameworks, preferred.
• Experience in defense, government, regulated, GCC High, Azure Government, or similar environments, preferred.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications such as Security+, CySA+, CISSP, GIAC, Microsoft Security, or comparable credentials, preferred., * Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
• Communicating with others to exchange information.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.

Pre-Employment Requirements:

Any offer of employment with Valkyrie Enterprises is contingent upon the successful completion of all applicable pre-employment requirements. Depending on the position, these may include a criminal background investigation, employment and education verification, pre-employment drug screening, driving record review, security clearance eligibility, government installation access, and any other customer or contract-specific requirements. Failure to successfully meet any required pre-employment condition may result in the withdrawal of the contingent offer of employment.

Additionally, Valkyrie Enterprises provides a variety of benefits to eligible employees to support your best health, wellness, and future, to include medical/dental/vision options, company paid life and disability insurances, 401k with match, education reimbursement, as well as company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Pay Range: $105,000 - $145,000 per year