Cyber Security Engineer – 6 months assignment

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Uruguay.

📋 Description

• Oversee endpoint security engineering initiatives across global settings, ensuring effective monitoring and protection capabilities.

• Deliver expert support for Carbon Black, utilizing API engineering to improve, streamline, and automate security workflows and processes.

• Lead support for Cortex XDR and XSIAM, engaging in policy assessments and providing essential implementation assistance for the SOC during the XSIAM migration and rollout.

• Investigate and address possible performance issues and resource conflicts associated with security agents across various operating systems.

• Develop and implement deployment strategies for security agents, ensuring smooth upgrades and comprehensive coverage of all corporate endpoints.

• Recognize actual infrastructure challenges and convert them into specific security configurations, avoiding overly broad or generic policy solutions.

• Maintain and organize security documentation and playbooks, ensuring clear visibility into rule configurations, exceptions, and agent health status.

• Work in conjunction with core infrastructure teams, SOC, and IT support to establish the optimal strategy for agent rollouts, incident investigations, and policy adjustments.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in specialized Endpoint Security Engineering or Infrastructure Security roles.

• Demonstrated experience providing advanced support for Carbon Black, including automation through API integration.

• Practical experience with Cortex XDR (and ideally XSIAM), supporting policy reviews and SOC implementations.

• Strong background in troubleshooting complex performance and resource issues caused by security agents.

• Experience in defining security baselines, policy exceptions, and strategies for agent deployment.

• Proficient in English at an advanced level.

🏝️ Benefits

• 6-month contract position with competitive salaries across LATAM (in USD).

• Fully remote work opportunity throughout LATAM.

• Chance to be part of a cooperative and rapidly expanding global team.

• Daily engagement and close collaboration with international teams, including those in the US.

• A role with substantial visibility and responsibility, where your contributions significantly influence the organization's security posture.