Cyber Security Engineer

We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to join a financial institution in Albuquerque, New Mexico in a contract role with the potential to become permanent. This position focuses on strengthening and advancing the organization's security environment through hands-on engineering across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and monitoring domains. The ideal candidate brings strong technical judgment, can work independently on complex initiatives, and partners effectively with cross-functional teams to reduce risk and improve resilience.

Responsibilities:

• Build and enhance secure technical solutions across endpoint protection, identity platforms, cloud environments, network controls, and security monitoring systems.
• Drive implementation efforts for security platforms, including deployments, upgrades, and integrations, while ensuring reliable performance and alignment with business needs.
• Assess technical vulnerabilities and security gaps, then recommend and execute engineering improvements that support compliance and risk management objectives.
• Work closely with security analysts to improve alerting, logging, and telemetry so threats can be identified and investigated more effectively.
• Strengthen the overall security posture through automation, hardened configurations, and targeted architecture improvements.
• Apply industry and regulatory security guidance to infrastructure and solution design within a financial services environment.
• Lead remediation work stemming from audits, assessments, incidents, or control reviews, ensuring corrective actions are completed thoroughly.
• Provide technical direction to less experienced team members and contribute expertise to project teams handling security-focused initiatives.

Other duties as needed