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Building on nearly 50 years of success, we deliver Payload & Protection Systems, Aero/Hydrodynamic Interstage Systems, and Propulsion & Launch Systems to more than 80 prime contractors supporting over 130 space and defense programs.\nAs a Security Operations Engineer, you will help protect the organization's systems, identities, data, and operations through security monitoring, threat detection, investigation, and incident response activities. Working across a multi-site environment, you will partner with internal teams and external security providers to improve visibility, strengthen detection capabilities, support timely response efforts, and continuously enhance the organization's cybersecurity posture.\nResponsibilities\nMonitors and investigates security activity across security information and event management (SIEM), endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network, and other security telemetry sources.\nDevelops, tests, tunes, and documents security detections, analytics, alerting logic, and monitoring capabilities.\nConducts threat hunting activities, identifies monitoring gaps, and improves visibility across critical environments.\nInvestigates identity compromise, malware, phishing, endpoint compromise, unauthorized access, suspicious cloud activity, and other cybersecurity events.\nEstablishes the scope, impact, affected assets, identities, users, data, and required containment actions for security incidents.\nCoordinates containment and remediation activities with technology teams, system owners, application owners, and external service providers.\nPreserves technical evidence, documents investigation findings, validates remediation activities, and escalates significant cybersecurity exposures when appropriate.\nEngages business and technical stakeholders during investigations and provides technical evidence to support operational, legal, contractual, compliance, and security decisions.\nCollaborates with external Security Operations Center (SOC) and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) partners to improve investigation quality, escalation effectiveness, and response outcomes.\nSupports security metrics, continuous improvement initiatives, and technical evidence requirements associated with cybersecurity, customer, and internal security obligations.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\nFour or more years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, security engineering, threat hunting, or a related discipline.\nHands-on experience investigating security events and determining scope and impact.\nExperience with security information and event management (SIEM) or security monitoring platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel or similar technologies.\nExperience working with endpoint, identity, cloud, email, or network security telemetry.\nFamiliarity with Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, or related Microsoft security technologies.\nExperience developing or tuning alerts, analytics, queries, or detection logic.\nWorking knowledge of common attacker techniques, including credential abuse, privilege escalation, persistence, and lateral movement.\nStrong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in aerospace, defense, manufacturing, federal contracting, or another regulated environment.\nExperience with Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) or government cloud environments.\nFamiliarity with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-171 (NIST SP 800-171), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), or the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework.\nExperience with Kusto Query Language (KQL), MITRE ATT&CK, threat hunting, or managed Security Operations Center (SOC) and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) environments.\nExperience supporting significant cybersecurity incidents or ransomware investigations.\nRelevant security certifications.\nThis position requires U.S. person status under U.S. export control laws, including U.S. citizens and nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.\nBenefits\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance\n401(k) with company match\nPaid time off\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) with company contribution\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA)\nCompany-paid life and AD&D insurance\nShort- and long-term disability coverage\nTuition reimbursement\nKarman Space and Defense is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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