CyberData Technologies, Inc., an established technology solution provider based in Reston, Virginia, is looking to expand its growing team. We are a primary government consultant and infrastructure support contractor. Our employees are our greatest asset and we are committed to their professional development and growth. We provide competitive salaries, bonuses, generous benefit packages, and paid time off to balance work and personal commitments.

The SOC / Incident Response Engineer supports enterprise security monitoring, incident response, and threat detection across a hybrid IT environment, including on-premises infrastructure and cloud services. This role provides advanced security analysis, threat hunting, and detection engineering to strengthen organizational cybersecurity operations and continuous monitoring capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute incident response processes in accordance with established incident response plans, standard operating procedures (SOPs), playbooks, and analyst workflows.
• Develop and maintain incident response SOPs, playbooks, workflows, and operational guidelines aligned with industry best practices and recognized cybersecurity frameworks.
• Implement and integrate new incident response and threat intelligence capabilities with existing security tools and the organization's cybersecurity ecosystem.
• Monitor cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions to protect web applications from vulnerabilities, bot attacks, API abuse, and application-layer Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
• Recommend and implement improvements to incident response policies, procedures, and operational processes.
• Research emerging incident response technologies, evaluate security tools, and recommend enhancements to improve incident response capabilities.

P rincipal applicants only. Please no agencies, 3rd party, or staffing firms.

CyberData is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.