Job description
NovaGuard Technologies is seeking a highly skilled Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our expanding security team in sunny Austin, Texas. This role blends security architecture, incident response, and hands-on engineering to protect our clients and our products across cloud and on-prem environments. You will collaborate with DevOps, Product, and IT to implement scalable security controls and drive secure-by-design initiatives.
As a member of our security engineering group, you will design, deploy, and operate security solutions that reduce risk while enabling rapid innovation. If you are passionate about cloud security, threat intelligence, and building resilient systems, we want to hear from you.
Responsibility
- Design and implement secure architecture for cloud and hybrid deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP) with strong emphasis on IAM, encryption, network segmentation, and identity protection.
- Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, develop playbooks, runbooks, and conduct post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
- Perform threat modeling, risk assessments, and vulnerability management to identify and remediate security gaps.
- Develop and enforce security controls across SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- Integrate SIEM/SOAR tooling (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel) for detection, alerting, and automation of responses.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Security Operations, and Product teams to drive secure software development and continuous improvement.
- Stay current with threat intelligence and industry best practices; communicate findings and risk to non-technical stakeholders.
Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering, threat detection, or security operations experience.
- Proven expertise in cloud security across AWS/Azure/GCP, including IAM, KMS, VPCs, and security groups.
- Strong experience with SIEM/SOAR platforms and incident response tooling; familiarity with threat hunting concepts.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Knowledge of recognized frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001) and vulnerability management processes.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GCFA) are a plus.