🟢 Senior Cyber Security Engineer
- Houston, TX, USA
- FuntoNetwork | Start Date: To be confirmed
- Full-Time
- Hybrid
- 65-139 USD / Hour
Job Description:
Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Managed Detection & Response - MDR)
Company Overview
FuntoNetwork is a specialized IT consulting firm focused on delivering proactive cybersecurity solutions, with a core emphasis on Managed Detection & Response (MDR) services. We partner with organizations to serve as their dedicated cybersecurity team, offering 24/7 threat hunting, continuous monitoring, and rapid incident response. Our mission is to empower businesses with innovative, outcome-driven security operations, enabling them to operate securely and confidently in an evolving threat landscape.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our core MDR delivery team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for defending our clients by actively hunting for threats, leading investigations into sophisticated security incidents, and continuously enhancing our detection and response capabilities. You will go beyond traditional monitoring to perform deep forensic analysis, develop custom detection logic, and guide containment and eradication efforts for a diverse portfolio of clients. This is a hands-on role for a practitioner who thrives in a dynamic, client-focused Security Operations Center (SOC) environment.
Key Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Role coverage: Provide the role-specific coverage required for 🟢 Green — Senior Cyber Security Engineer.
- Tooling: Use role-appropriate tools such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Excel or Google Sheets, Teams or Zoom, SharePoint, and role-appropriate reporting or workflow tools.
- Baseline the security environment: Inventory assets, identities, data flows, privileged access, logging, endpoint controls, and third parties.
- Map control requirements: Translate security, privacy, contractual, and regulatory obligations into testable controls and evidence.
- Perform threat and risk analysis: Identify threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood, impact, safeguards, and residual risk.
- Define monitoring and incident workflows: Establish alerting, severity, triage, evidence preservation, escalation, containment, and notification.
- Manage remediation work packages: Assign findings, owners, due dates, exceptions, validation tests, and closure evidence.
- Produce security assurance reporting: Maintain control mappings, risk updates, incident records, remediation status, and executive reporting.
- Review project scope and source materials: Review the opportunity scope, source posting, supporting documents, deadlines, addenda, and client requirements that affect the assigned role.
- Confirm role requirements and dependencies: Identify required inputs, assumptions, constraints, interfaces, decisions, acceptance criteria, and dependencies before beginning assigned work.
- Coordinate project delivery: Work with FuntoNetwork and related consultants to align responsibilities, handoffs, schedules, escalations, and client-facing outputs.
- Prepare assigned deliverables: Produce complete role-specific analysis, documentation, recommendations, configurations, estimates, or technical materials required for the engagement.
- Communicate with stakeholders: Provide clear updates, raise risks and questions promptly, document decisions, and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Support quality and readiness: Participate in reviews, resolve comments, maintain status information, and confirm assigned work is accurate, traceable, and ready for delivery.
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