Description
Syneos Health is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join their security engineering team. The successful candidate will engineer, integrate, and operate a wide range of security tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and application domains.
Job Responsibilities
- Engineer, integrate, and operate security tools across various domains
- Support platforms including EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability and exposure management, cloud security, identity security, email security, and network security
- Ensure security tools are correctly configured, stable, and integrated with SOC and IT workflows
- Design and maintain integrations between security tools
- Improve data quality, enrichment, correlation, and response consistency across platforms
- Develop and maintain engineering standards, configuration guidance, and operational playbooks
- Provide senior-level technical support for complex incidents and escalations
- Participate in on-call or escalation rotations as needed
- Drive continuous improvement through tuning, automation, and simplification
- Evaluate new tools and features and assess fit within the environment
- Contribute to defining the security engineering roadmap
- Act as a senior technical resource and mentor
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of cybersecurity experience across multiple security domains or tools
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise security platforms
- Strong understanding of security operations and incident response workflows
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or early-stage environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to Have / Preferred
- Experience building or modernizing a security engineering function
- Automation or scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, APIs)
- Experience with SOAR or security automation platforms
- Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Relevant industry certifications (CISSP, GIAC, cloud security)
What Success Looks Like
- Security tools are stable, integrated, and trusted by operations teams
- Clear engineering standards and repeatable patterns are established
- Reduced friction between security tooling and partner teams