Threat Cybersecurity Engineer

Mclean, VAHybridFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Threat Cybersecurity Engineer
Security Operations
Threat Detection
Threat Hunting
Incident Response
Attack-Surface Management
Security Automation
Endpoint Detection
SIEM
Security Monitoring

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Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Role summary

EXIGER is seeking an experienced Threat Cybersecurity Engineer to enhance security operations and protect its technology environment. This role involves security monitoring, threat detection and hunting, incident response, attack-surface management, and security automation. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to improve security visibility and implement scalable controls. Key responsibilities include administering security tools, investigating threats, conducting threat hunts, developing detections, managing vulnerabilities, and coordinating incident response. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in security engineering, operations, or incident response, with advanced skills in EDR, SIEM, and threat investigation.

Who We Are:

Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized 1EXIGER.AI platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.

Threat Cybersecurity Engineer

Summary

EXIGER is seeking an experienced Threat Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen security operations and protect a growing technology environment. This hands-on role focuses on security monitoring, threat detection and hunting, incident response, attack-surface management, and security automation. The engineer will collaborate with Security, IT, engineering, cloud, and compliance teams to improve security visibility and implement scalable controls that support the company’s continued growth.

Responsibilities

Administer and optimize endpoint detection, SIEM, and security-monitoring capabilities.

Monitor, triage, and investigate threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, application, and network environments.

Conduct proactive threat hunting using threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and attacker techniques.

Develop and tune detection rules, alerts, dashboards, and automated response workflows aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.

Identify and prioritize exposed assets, vulnerabilities, and other security weaknesses.

Coordinate incident containment, remediation, recovery, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.

Maintain investigation playbooks, procedures, metrics, and executive reporting.

Participate in the security operations on-call rotation as required.

Qualifications

Seven or more years of experience in security engineering, security operations, incident response, threat detection, or a related discipline.

Advanced experience with endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, SIEM administration, and security investigations.

Demonstrated ability to develop and tune detections, investigate complex alerts, and distinguish genuine threats from false positives.

Experience conducting structured threat hunts and mapping attacker behavior to MITRE ATT&CK.

Working knowledge of attack-surface management, vulnerability management, asset discovery, and risk-based remediation.

Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, cloud, network, identity, and endpoint security.

Exiger is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management, twice selected as one of Fast Company's 'Brands That Matter,' and recipient of the Third Party Risk Association's Innovator Award, Exiger's technology has been recognized by leading analyst evaluations and 50+ awards. Learn more at Exiger.com and follow Exiger on LinkedIn.

At Exiger, our values define how we work and why we lead. We are mission-inspired, imagination-driven, trust-anchored, and compassion-focused—committed to building technology that makes the world safer, more transparent, and more resilient.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Exiger’s hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.

Exiger’s hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.

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