Senior Security Engineer

The Company

Every day, NuHarbor Security improves the cybersecurity of our clients by making it stronger and easier to understand. Our comprehensive suite of security services, from strategic advising to 24-hour monitoring and management, provide an organizational view of security that is focused on results and recommendations that are valuable for both business and technical leaders. We’re growing quickly because our clients, and the general market, are looking for these outcomes and for the data it gives them to explain, promote, and justify, their security investment and mission.

The Role

The Senior Security Engineer is the senior technical authority on the NuHarbor Security Engineering team and the owner of the engineering layer that NuHarbor's managed services depend on. While Detection Engineering and SOC operations own the content and analysis built on top of our platforms, those functions cannot operate without the underlying environments being correctly architected, properly configured, performant, and maintained to best practice. The Senior Security Engineer owns that foundation.

This role operates with a high degree of autonomy. The Senior Security Engineer self-directs toward the most complex and highest-impact work, drives client outcomes without requiring oversight, and serves as the senior technical escalation point and mentor for the broader engineering team. The role is anchored in Splunk, but a Senior Security Engineer is expected to apply their engineering discipline across any platform in NuHarbor's catalog and to ramp quickly on new technologies as the catalog evolves.

What you’ll do

• Lives by the NuHarbor corporate values: Help Clients Win, Always Improve, Protect the House.
• Owns the systems engineering that keeps NuHarbor's co-managed platforms running correctly; architecture, configuration, performance, and maintenance to NuHarbor and vendor best practice, so that Detection Engineering and SOC Operations can function reliably on top of them.
• Ensures client data is properly onboarded, parsed, and normalized to the appropriate data model for each platform (e.g., Splunk CIM, Microsoft ASIM, Google UDM).
• Diagnoses and resolves complex architectural problems across managed environments, including those that block or degrade downstream detection and analysis.
• Self-assigns and drives the most complex and highest-impact work, operating independently without requiring direction.
• Drives the engineering ticket queue with quality, efficiency, and completeness, resolving issues fully rather than partially.
• Designs, implements, and maintains engineering solutions for multi-tenant scalability, repeatability, and standardization across NuHarbor's client base, solving problems in a way that is durable and portable rather than one environment at a time.
• Communicates with clients at an expert technical level, building the trust and delivery excellence that turns clients into raving fans.
• Performs the engineering and architecture work required to onboard new managed services clients and to sustain and mature existing ones.
• Supports, deploys, and manages the components of NuHarbor's security automation and case management platform(s), including integrations across the managed stack (SIEM, EDR, identity, ticketing), configuration to best practice, and multi-tenancy.
• Builds and maintains automation workflows and integrations that connect the platform to client environments, partnering with SOC and Detection Engineering on the response logic those workflows execute.
• Regularly meets with clients to drive objectives forward and proactively addresses issues before they escalate.
• Develops engineering recommendations and enhancements that improve the security posture and effectiveness of each client's managed platforms, and communicates them to client stakeholders.
• Provides technical direction, leadership, and mentorship that measurably raises the capability of the broader engineering team.
• Provides architectural review and oversight for client operational projects.
• Develops and improves onboarding and operational processes, and builds processes to support new technologies at the direction of Engineering Leadership.
• Helps design the engineering approach and operational processes for newly adopted technologies, in support of new and evolving service offerings.
• Maintains the industry and vendor certifications required to support the managed services catalog, and ensures managed platforms are patched and hardened in response to relevant vulnerabilities.
• Participates in a 24x7 on-call rotation; other duties as assigned by Engineering Leadership.

Your foundation. The requirements for this role:

• Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) or more years in the Information Technology field.
  
  • In lieu of a degree, two (2) years of experience in a related technology field and relevant industry certifications are required.
• Five (5) or more years engineering security platforms in a managed services, enterprise, or comparable operational environment.
• Three (3) or more years directly engineering and administering Splunk environments, including Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Demonstrated experience onboarding and normalizing data sources to a common data model (e.g., Splunk CIM).
• Strong Linux and Windows proficiency.
• Strong understanding of security concepts and operations.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and architecture.
• Proficiency with data visualization tools and strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency scripting in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, or Python, with working familiarity across the others.
• Must be a citizen of the United States

Additional capabilities that will differentiate you for this role:

• Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect and/or Splunk Certified Consultant.
• Microsoft AZ-500 and/or SC-100/SC-200.
• Google Professional Security Operations Engineer (PSOE).
• Hands-on engineering experience across one or more additional platforms in NuHarbor's catalog, e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike, Tanium; and the demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on new technologies.
• Experience engineering and supporting platforms in a multi-tenant MSSP environment.
• Experience engineering platforms in support of a 24x7 SOC or MDR operation.
• Experience with vulnerability management technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Automation Platforms).
• Experience supporting SLG or education clients.
• Bachelor's degree and seven (7) or more years in the Information Technology field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex subjects understandable and to gain trust and achieve shared objectives.
• A track record of managing and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously.
• An understanding of how businesses operate and how technical decisions affect business results.
• Passion for security and customer service.

Base Salary for this role is targeted at $130,000 - 175,000 *Salary based on Burlington, VT salary data. Offer is based on candidate geography. Additionally, this role is eligible for the company bonus plan at a 10% target.

The Rewards

What you can expect:

• The engagement and support of company leadership who recognize the challenge of marketing a complex cybersecurity service in a chaotic market.
• An organization that recognizes and rewards employee commitment and contribution to our customers’ satisfaction and success
• Growth in your career and capabilities as you help to chart a path to improving customer experience and service adoption.
• A collaborative and driven working environment in a rapidly growing company and market.
• A fun and social working environment where you are encouraged to be your true self.

You can also expect competitive salary and benefits, including paid time to give back in your community and generous PTO.

We are purpose driven. We, as an organization, above anything else protect the house first and then help our customers win. If this sounds like the kind of organization you’d like to be a part of, we‘d like to hear from you.

AAP/EEO Statement

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of NuHarbor Security is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. NuHarbor Security hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

NuHarbor Security believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.