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*This position does not offer work visa sponsorship*
We are looking for an Expert (Staff) Cyber Risk Management Engineer to evolve our intelligence driven detection pipeline, incident response program, and purple team initiatives. You’ll play a key role in shaping how we detect, respond to, and learn from adversary behaviors across our environments.
As a member of the Cyber Risk Management team, you will be responsible for handling complex security incidents as an Incident Commander, building detections and detection frameworks, collaborating with cross functional peers, and helping to drive our overall security strategy.
ResponsibilitiesIncident Command and Response – Tier 3 Escalation
- Act as the Incident Commander for critical security events as part of our on-call rotation.
- Foster a culture of learning through blameless post-mortems to drive measurable improvements in both processes and tooling.
- Analyze security alerts and data from various sources (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, logs) to identify and investigate sophisticated threats.
- Lead tabletop exercises and IR simulations to a variety of audiences in order to test and refine incident response plans, identify weaknesses, and enhance communication and collaboration.
Threat Hunting and Intelligence
- Proactively identify potential threats and weaknesses across systems and networks through hypothesis driven threat hunting.
- Identify gaps in detection coverage and proactively develop new telemetry, detections, and analytic approaches to address emerging threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, and network domains.
- Fuse internal telemetry with open source, commercial, and internal intelligence sources to prioritize risks and improve detection strategies.
- Track adversary TTPs and feed findings back into our hunting and detection pipelines.
Strategic Leadership
- Leverage automation, enrichment, and playbook-driven workflows to reduce manual triage, improve signal quality, and scale detection and response capabilities.
- Work closely with engineering, IT, and risk/compliance teams to improve detection coverage and incident preparedness.
- Lead exploration and responsible adoption of AI to improve detection, response, and analyst workflows, while deeply analyzing how adversarial use of AI evolves tradecraft, reshapes attack surfaces, and impacts enterprise risk.
- Translate technical findings into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders, contributing to executive-facing metrics and narratives around detection efficacy and risk reduction.
- Anticipate and prepare for evolving threats and technology shifts by proactively adapting tooling and detection strategies.
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered.
- 7+ years of combined hands-on IT and security architecture development and implementation work experience with a broad exposure to infrastructure/network and multi-platform environments.
- Deep understanding of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS), network protocols, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), and common attack techniques (MITRE ATT&CK).
- Proficiency with investigation and forensic tools such as EDR platforms (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne), log aggregators (Splunk, ELK), and packet capture tools (Wireshark, Zeek).
- Demonstrated ability to lead high-pressure incident response scenarios across technical and non-technical teams.
- Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automation and analysis or experience with SOAR platforms is highly preferred.
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications, and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 25. $142,107 - $308,050
- Competitive base and incentive pay
- 401(k) with robust matching and non-matching contributions
- Rich medical & pharmacy benefits
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Holistic wellbeing program with deep financial incentives
- Generous paid time off plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture of growth and learning: career development; tuition reimbursement; recognition program
- Family support: adoption assistance, fertility treatment, child, elder & pet care assistance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
- Employee discount program
Top Skills
What We Do
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all. We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people. Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
