Forward Progress Staffing is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer or Senior Security Analyst to support application and cloud security across a growing AWS-first environment. This role partners closely with development teams to advise on secure design, identify vulnerabilities early, and support incident response and security operations.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Dev teams during build cycles to identify and remediate application security risks
- Perform vulnerability scanning, triage, and remediation (infrastructure, endpoints, cloud, web apps)
- Conduct and coordinate penetration testing activities
- Support incident response, investigations, and root cause analysis
- Investigate phishing campaigns and email-based threats
- Manage and tune SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel preferred)
- Support endpoint security, blocking, and EDR tooling
- Monitor AWS (preferred) and Azure environments for misconfigurations and threats
- Support security tooling including Proofpoint and Microsoft security ecosystem
- Contribute across security domains — endpoint, cloud, application, identity
Requirements:
- 5+ years in Security Engineering, Security Operations, or SOC
- Strong experience with application security and Dev collaboration
- Vulnerability management and pen testing exposure
- Incident response and phishing investigation experience
- Experience with Microsoft ecosystem (AD, Azure AD, O365)
- Hands-on with Microsoft Sentinel; Proofpoint a plus
- Comfortable operating as a security generalist
- AWS security experience preferred (Azure familiarity helpful)