Job description
QuantumShield Technologies is seeking a proactive Cybersecurity Engineer to join our Austin team. You will design, implement, and maintain secure systems across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring best-practice security controls and compliance with industry standards.
In this role, you will collaborate with DevOps, software engineering, and product teams to reduce risk, detect threats, and respond swiftly to incidents. We value curiosity, practical problem solving, and a passion for building resilient architectures.
What we offer: competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and ample opportunities for growth in a fast-paced security-first culture.
Responsibility
- Lead and participate in security architecture reviews and risk assessments for cloud and on-prem environments.
- Design, implement, and tune SIEM and EDR solutions; monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents.
- Develop and enforce security controls for CI/CD pipelines, cloud resources, and container workloads.
- Perform vulnerability management, remediation validation, and security testing (pentests coordination).
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement secure-by-default configurations and compliant data handling.
- Create and maintain security runbooks, incident playbooks, and post-incident reports.
- Educate teams on security best practices; mentor junior engineers; contribute to a security-first culture.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years in cybersecurity or security engineering roles.
- Strong knowledge of network security, threat modeling, and incident response.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM (Splunk, Elastic), EDR (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne), and SOC processes.
- Cloud security experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), IAM, least-privilege, and secure DevOps.
- Automation scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for tooling and data analysis.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or SANS programs are preferred.