Description
GuidePoint Security is looking for a Security Engineer to join their Corporate Information Security (CIS) team, focused on threat detection, threat intelligence, threat hunting and event triage.
The Security Engineer, CIS will be required to demonstrate strong event triage, and threat hunting capabilities, alongside a solid understanding of networks and systems fundamentals. The ideal candidate will have a strong bias toward automating the boring stuff and bring a genuine curiosity about attack mechanics.
Responsibilities:
- Investigate and prioritize alerts, separate signal from noise, and drive incidents to resolution or escalation.
- Proactively search for adversary activity and develop and tune high-fidelity detections.
- Translate intel into detections, hunts, and response actions that measurably reduce risk.
- Build tooling and automation code with AI coding agents, applying sound engineering judgment to review, test, and safely deploy what they produce.
- Contribute to detection-as-code and runbooks, improving coverage, quality, and repeatability over time.
- Partner with peers and internal customers to share knowledge, document your work, and continuously raise the bar for the team.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to support incident response outside of standard business hours.
Requirements:
- High School diploma + 5 years of relevant experience, OR Bachelor’s degree (BS/BA) + 2 years of relevant experience, OR Master’s degree (MS/MA).
- Experience triaging events with a strong focus on technical accuracy, root cause analysis and timely escalation.
- A solid grasp of how attacks work and common attack vectors, TCP/IP and core networking, and authentication and authorization concepts.
- Some hands-on experience already building automation or tooling with LLMs / AI agents applied thoughtfully and safely.
- Scripting skills (e.g. Python) applied to security operations or other business workflow automation.
Benefits:
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only)
- Group Medical Insurance options
- Group Dental Insurance
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option