Cyber Defense Engineer (Guadalajara)

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Cyber Defense Engineer

In this opportunity, you will collaborate with other exceptionally hard‑working engineers and analysts in a constantly expanding fast‑paced environment.

You will have a strong passion for cyber security and its best standards. This will be conveyed through analysis, communications, and organization wide collaboration.

What will you do?

• Facilitate communications with stakeholders which may include End Users, Leadership, and Legal.
• Document actions taken in knowledge base articles, ticketing systems, and casework as required.
• Provide continuous improvements to Security Processes and Runbooks.
• Perform Threat Model Assessments and Third-Party Security Assessments.
• Lead Tabletop Exercises.
• Leverage cross‑functional relationships with key stakeholders to understand business needs, define problems and ensure incident response tactics align with business objectives and priorities.
• Present key findings and recommendations to senior management to support decision‑making.
• Perform Insider Threat analysis and use Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools and practices.
• Contribute to the creation and tuning of new detections.
• Provide training and mentorship to team members, sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Follow F5 information security policies and protect information assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference.
• Know the latest security trends, news, CVEs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Comfortable leading security investigations through the Incident Response lifecycle.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK; framework (i.e. Cloud Matrix).
• Basic understanding of networking concepts.
• Experience with SIEM solution and correlating different log sources.
• Solid understanding of UNIX/Linux operating systems and commands.
• Solid understanding of cloud security logging best practices in any cloud service provider (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to perform forensics on cloud resources (i.e. EC2).
• Solid attention to detail.
• Highly motivated, independently driven, and good interpersonal skills.
• Must take initiative and provide updates to various team members and upper management.
• Experience in security event triage as it relates to any cloud service provider (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Comfortable leading security investigations through the Incident Response lifecycle.
• Ability to produce clear and concise incident response reports.
• Strong analytical and critical‑thinking skills.

Additional experience a plus:

• Python, Bash scripting.
• CEH, GCIH, GCFR certification (other SANS training).
• Linux Host forensics.
• Forensics in Containerization software (Kubernetes, Docker, Containers).
• DLP (Data Loss Prevention) rule configurations and analysis (example: Microsoft Purview).

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in the security field. Must have prior Security Engineering experience supporting Incident Response or Security Operations.
• Ability to excel in a fast paced, challenging, operations environment.
• Must be able to communicate technical and operational details fluently in English (written and oral). Other languages are a plus.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Duties are performed while sitting at a desk or computer table. Duties require the ability to utilize a computer, communicate over the telephone and read printed material. Working in an environment where work hours are scheduled shifts but your position is a full time position. This role may be required to work outside of core business hours including early morning, late evening, overnight, weekends, and holidays.