Summary
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A U.S.-based organization is seeking a senior cybersecurity engineer for a fully remote, 12-month engagement focused on mergers and acquisitions. You will assess security controls and technical risks across enterprise environments, conduct threat hunting and compromise assessments, and develop practical security integration plans for newly acquired businesses.
Highlights
A fully remote, 12-month contract with the possibility of extension or conversion. The position offers hands-on responsibility across multiple enterprise security domains, involvement in acquisition-related assessments and integration planning, and a predictable weekday schedule with 40 hours per week and no overtime or weekend work.
Description
Role: Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – M&A
Location: Fully Remote – U.S.
Duration: 12-month contract, possible extension/conversion
Schedule: 8 AM–5 PM EST, Monday–Friday
Hours: 40/week | No OT | No weekends
Job Summary
Seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with strong M&A cybersecurity due diligence and post-acquisition integration experience.
The ideal candidate will be hands-on across enterprise security domains and able to assess security controls, identify risks, and develop Day 1/Day 100 integration plans.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct cybersecurity due diligence for acquisition targets and identify technical/security risks.Validate security configurations and controls across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and infrastructure.Perform compromise assessments, threat hunting, endpoint triage, and IoC analysis.Assess firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, WAF, VPN, ZTNA, network segmentation, and SSL/TLS controls.Evaluate IAM technologies including SAML, OAuth, MFA, federation, PAM, and Zero Trust.Assess PKI, certificate management, email security, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and SIEM/logging environments.Develop Day 1/Day 100 integration plans, remediation roadmaps, and tooling consolidation strategies.Work with platforms such as CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Splunk, Wiz, and Microsoft security technologies.Gather infrastructure/security metrics from AD, cloud, CMDB, endpoint management, vulnerability scanners, and SIEM platforms.Communicate technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams and executive stakeholders.Required Qualifications
8+ years of cybersecurity engineering/security architecture experience.Strong hands-on experience across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and infrastructure security.Extensive M&A due diligence and/or post-acquisition integration experience.Experience with threat hunting, incident response, security assessments, and remediation.Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
