Cybersecurity Engineer

Job overview

The Cybersecurity Engineer role is with MetTel’s Corporate IT Team in NYC/NJ; the listing location is New York, NY. Compensation is up to $155,000 annually. MetTel provides managed communications, secure connectivity, network, and mobility services for businesses and government agencies. The engineer builds and operates enterprise security platforms, then uses them for detection, response, and threat hunting. The role strengthens the company’s security infrastructure and supports compliance through platform architecture, operational tooling, and audit reporting.

What you'll do

• Architect and implement on-premises and cloud security platforms
• design for scale, redundancy, access control, and integrations
• build dashboards, correlation rules, detection tuning, and automated playbooks
• own incident response and threat hunting
• support SOC 2, PCI DSS, and NIST 800-53 compliance with audit trails and reporting.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

cybersecurity engineer

new york ny

mettel

corporate it

security infrastructure

splunk

cyberark

tenable

soar

incident response

threat hunting

cloud security

up to $155k

compliance

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Combines security platform engineering and day-to-day blue-team operations, with an opportunity to participate in red-team functions for candidates with offensive security experience.

About the employer

MetTel is hiring for this role. Industry: Wired Telecommunications Carriers. Sector: 51.