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# Lead Security Engineer

- **Company:** Ark Infotech Spectrum
- **Location:** Fort Washington, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Security Information and Event Management, Firewalls (Computer Science), Servicenow
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/21a046b2-35ea-4d9e-beb0-48ebf7a14a83

## About the Role

7-10+ years of security engineering or security operations experience

Strong incident response and remediation background

Experience designing and maintaining enterprise security controls

Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills

## Description

The Lead Security Engineer is the senior technical resource on the internal security team. This role owns security engineering standards, leads incident response, and ensures security platforms are properly configured, integrated, and optimized to reduce risk and improve detection and response., Serve as the technical lead for security operations and incident response

Assist in investigation, containment, and remediation of severity incidents

Design, implement, and tune security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and SIEM platforms

Maintain and improve detection quality, response playbooks, and operational documentation

Participate in after-hours on-call rotation and provide escalation leadership

Tooling & Platforms

ServiceNow (SNOW)

Palo Alto Firewalls & SASE

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft 365 and Azure

Microsoft Copilot and other AI tools and technologies


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