Security Engineer- Corporate Information Security- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)
GuidePoint Security6 days ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Investigate and prioritize security alerts, distinguish signal from noise, and drive incidents to resolution or escalation.
- Proactively hunt for adversary activity and develop and tune high-fidelity detections.
- Translate threat intelligence into detections, hunts, and response actions that reduce risk.
- Build and safely deploy automation and tooling using AI coding agents, applying engineering judgment to review and test generated code.
- Contribute to detection-as-code and runbooks to improve security coverage, quality, and repeatability.
- Partner with peers and internal customers to share knowledge, document work, and improve team capabilities.
- Participate in a rotating on-call schedule supporting incident response outside standard business hours.
Requirements
- High school diploma plus 5 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor's degree plus 2 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree.
- Experience triaging events with technical accuracy, root-cause analysis, and timely escalation.
- Understanding of attack mechanics, common attack vectors, TCP/IP, core networking, authentication, and authorization.
- Hands-on experience building automation or tooling with LLMs or AI agents safely and thoughtfully.
- Scripting skills such as Python applied to security operations or business workflow automation.
- Willingness to use emerging AI technologies to improve problem-solving and business outcomes.
- Preferred incident-handling certifications include GCIH or GCFA.
- Preferred experience includes EDR, SIEM, DLP, OpenCode, Claude Code, Amazon Quick, and other agentic assistants or coding agents.
Benefits
- Primarily remote, U.S.-based work; some travel may be required, and federal positions may require on-site work.
- Up to 5% travel.
- Medical insurance options including PPO and high-deductible HSA plans with employer premium contributions.
- Dental insurance with employer premium contributions.
- Twelve corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off program.
- Mobile phone and home internet allowance.
- Eligibility for the retirement plan after two months at open enrollment.
- Pet benefit option.
About GuidePoint Security
GuidePoint Security provides cybersecurity consulting, managed services, and value-added reselling/integration of security products for enterprises and U.S. public-sector agencies. Its teams deliver assessments, penetration testing, cloud and application security, identity and access management, endpoint and network protection, and governance services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the privately held company serves Fortune 500 organizations and cabinet-level federal agencies.