Senior Security Engineer

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)