Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Security Engineering

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

Security Tool Engineering & Operations

• Engineer, integrate, and operate a wide range of security tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and application domains.

• Support platforms including EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability and exposure management, cloud security, identity security, email security, and network security.

• Ensure security tools are correctly configured, stable, and integrated with SOC and IT workflows.

Cross-Domain Integration

• Design and maintain integrations between security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, identity, cloud).

• Improve data quality, enrichment, correlation, and response consistency across platforms.

• Partner with Security Operations to ensure alerts and escalations are actionable and reliable.

Engineering Standards & Playbooks

• Develop and maintain engineering standards, configuration guidance, and operational playbooks.

• Identify systemic gaps and propose practical engineering solutions.

• Create documentation that enables scale and repeatability.

Incident & Operational Support

• Provide senior-level technical support for complex incidents and escalations.

• Assist with root-cause analysis and lessons learned.

• Participate in on-call or escalation rotations as needed.

• Provide operational guidance to and oversight of managed server provider technicians.

Continuous Improvement & Platform Maturity

• Drive continuous improvement through tuning, automation, and simplification.

• Evaluate new tools and features and assess fit within the environment.

• Contribute to defining the security engineering roadmap.

Technical Leadership

• Act as a senior technical resource and mentor.

• Influence engineering direction without formal people management responsibilities.

• Serve as a stabilizing technical presence as the team grows.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience across multiple security domains or tools.

• Hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise security platforms.

• Strong understanding of security operations and incident response workflows.

• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or early-stage environments.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have / Preferred

• Experience building or modernizing a security engineering function.

• Automation or scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, APIs).

• Experience with SOAR or security automation platforms.

• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

• Relevant industry certifications (CISSP, GIAC, cloud security).

What Success Looks Like

• Security tools are stable, integrated, and trusted by operations teams.

• Clear engineering standards and repeatable patterns are established.

• Reduced friction between security tooling and partner teams.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.