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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cyber Defense Specialist, Senior - **Company:** Blue Shield of California - **Location:** Oakland, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $102,740.0 - $154,220.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Antivirus Softwares, Cyber Security, Computer Networks, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Nmap, Phishing, Web Application Security, Security Information and Event Management, Wireshark, Cybercrime, Malware Detection, Cyber Warfare, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response - **Published:** August 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a6b242312f48382f ## About the Role * Typically, requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience. May have practical knowledge of project management. * Typically, requires a college degree or equivalent experience and minimum 5 years of prior relevant experience. * GCIH certification preferred * CISSP certification preferred * Security event monitoring and incident response. * Security Information Event Management (SIEM) searching. * Intrusion detection and network tools; Wireshark, Nmap. * Anti-virus and malware detection. * Social engineering and phishing detection. * Identity & Access Management. * Incident Response * Managed Defense ## Description The Information Security team is looking for a certified security professional to join our fast paced, highly collaborative, and diverse team of talent. Our mission is to provide operationally excellent next-generation information security event monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response services that protect our customers from adverse cyber events. The Cyber Defense Specialist, Senior will report to the Senior Manager of Information Security Operations. In this role you will utilize industry leading technology to detect, respond, and recover from advanced attacks and apply root cause analysis and lessons learned to proactively protect against known adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, prevent impact of our customer's assets, and control recurrence of incidents. Your Work In this role, you will: * Provide advanced network intrusion monitoring of and response including performing security incident risk assessment and severity declaration * Perform expert level endpoint detection and response (EDR) * Analyze application and web security events * Interpret logs for expert level threat hunting to identify and respond to indicators of compromise (IOCs) and threats including User and Event Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) using a security information and event management (SIEM) environment * Perform incident response containment * Utilize Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) of information security incidents * Respond and facilitate tier-3 incident management; mobilize security incident response team (SIRT) of key stakeholders; communicate and notify at all levels of the organization; perform post-incident activity involving root cause analysis (RCA) and lesson learned assessments and identify owners of correction action plans (CAP) * Formulation of security operation incident response plan, operational procedures, desk level procedures, and operational level agreements * Yield security compliance evidence of NIST 800-53 controls, Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need. ## Related Videos - [Cyber Sleuth: Finding Hidden Connections in Cyber Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/893-cyber-sleuth-finding-hidden-connections-in-cyber-data) - [How I saved 200K/yr in direct costs writing 0 code lines in K8s](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1055-how-i-saved-200k-yr-in-direct-costs-writing-0-code-lines-in-k8s) - [Passkeys: Truly Phishing-Resistant? 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