Sr. Threat Detection and Incident Response Engineer
Motorola Solutions4 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $130k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable threat management, detection, and incident response platforms across multi-cloud environments.
- Design automated workflows and AI-assisted playbooks for security alert triage and mitigation.
- Analyze system telemetry, identify detection gaps, and deploy high-fidelity detection logic.
- Investigate and remediate active security incidents as an escalation point in an on-call rotation.
- Conduct purple team exercises with SOC and incident response teams to validate detection efficacy and incident readiness.
- Lead post-incident reviews and root-cause analyses and incorporate improvements into detection pipelines.
- Partner with architecture and security engineering teams on secure enterprise platform and detection tool implementations.
- Support security control baselines, compliance standards, and NIST 800-53 governance requirements.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience in information security, threat detection, or incident response.
- At least five years of experience in cloud security, scripting and automation, SOAR/API integration, cloud detection technologies, and telemetry/log architecture.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field, or eight years of equivalent experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
- Experience securing and monitoring multi-cloud infrastructure using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Proficiency with Python or another modern programming language for integrations and automated workflows.
- Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and orchestration tools for automated response playbooks.
- Strong operational proficiency with Linux/UNIX environments, CLI tooling, and system-level logging.
- Experience with CNAPP or CDR solutions and endpoint, network, identity, and centralized SIEM/data-lake telemetry.
- Demonstrated incident response, escalation, security compliance, and technical risk communication experience.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain required security and government-customer clearances.
- Preferred qualifications include agentic AI or LLM experience, purple teaming, Caldera or Stratus Red Team, digital forensics, web and API security, application security, Kubernetes, and certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, or GCIH.
Benefits
- Incentive bonus plans.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Ten paid holidays and generous paid time off packages.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Paid parental and family leave.
- Travel is under 10% and no relocation is provided.
- The position requires work in high-security areas, a stringent fingerprint background check, and applicable CJIS security compliance.
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About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions builds mission‑critical communications, video security and access control, body‑worn cameras, and command‑center software for public safety agencies and enterprises. It sells radios and LMR/P25 systems, cloud software, and managed services used by police, fire, and critical infrastructure operators. Headquartered in Chicago and publicly traded on the NYSE (MSI), the company was formed in 2011 after Motorola’s split and operates globally.