Exiger

Threat Cybersecurity Engineer

Exiger • $120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in security engineering or related field.
  • Advanced skills in endpoint protection and SIEM administration.
  • Proficiency in developing and tuning detection rules.
  • Experience with structured threat hunts and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
  • Knowledge of attack-surface and vulnerability management techniques.
  • Solid understanding of Windows, Linux, cloud, and network security.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and enhance endpoint detection and security monitoring.
  • Monitor and investigate potential threats across various environments.
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting informed by threat intelligence.
  • Develop detection rules and automated response procedures.
  • Identify and prioritize vulnerabilities and security weaknesses.
  • Coordinate incident response and post-incident analysis.
  • Maintain investigation playbooks and reporting for executives.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work policy that adapts to business needs.
Full Job Description
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's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.

About Exiger

Exiger is a global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance company. The company provides technology-enabled solutions to manage regulatory compliance, financial crime, and risk management. Exiger was founded in 2013 by Michael Beber and Brandon Daniels. The company is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Toronto, Vancouver, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bucharest. Exiger's clients include financial institutions, corporations, and governments.
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Size
600 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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