DPP is seeking a
Cyber Security Engineer II for an opportunity with our client in the healthcare insurance industry.
Work location: Hybrid in Columbia, SC
Duration: 11 months
Shift: Onsite Tues, Wed, Thurs and as needed; 8:00AM-5:00PM
Terms: W2 Contract
Work authorization: US Citizen; must be able to obtain/maintain a Low-level (Public Trust) clearance
About the Team:- The Cyber Security Engineer II will join the Cybersecurity Operations Center with 13 people, half analysts, half engineers for a hands-on AI focused engineering position.
- This team is currently continuing to integrate new SIEM with multiple platforms and roll out new AI security initiatives
Responsibilities: - Detection catalog in production: Publish an AI threat detection catalog mapped to telemetry sources and deploy an initial prioritized detection set with a monthly tuning cadence.
- Faster, cleaner triage: Reduce repeat false positives and improve time-to-triage/time-to-escalation for AI-related alerts through enrichment and tuning.
- Monitored guardrails: Stand up baseline monitoring and anomaly thresholds for approved AI tools and deliver recurring executive-ready reporting on risky usage patterns and remediation.
- Validated response capability: Publish AI-focused IR runbooks and validate via tabletop exercises; feed lessons learned into playbooks and detection tuning.
Required Qualifications: - Understanding of GitHub or Gitlab, and CICD pipelines
- Security operations/detection engineering/IR experience with SIEM/SOAR workflows; automation/scripting skills (e.g., Python, KQL/SPL).
- Working knowledge of AI/ML risk patterns (prompt injection, data leakage, and over-trust of outputs).
- Communication and leadership skills. Will be working across teams that include execs, architects, senior technical staff
Required Education: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree;
- OR 4 years of job-related work experience;
- OR 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree.
Required Work Experience: - 6 years of job-related technical experience.
Required Software and Other Tools: - Advanced proficiency with applicable IT Security tools (software and hardware)
- Microsoft Office
Preferred Qualifications:- Previous network engineer experience
- Previous SOC analyst/engineer experience
- Certifications related to AI/Machine Learning
Preferred Work Experience: - Experience in network security (Cisco ASA, IPS, VPN, RSA SecurID, PKI, cryptography), security controls for LAN/WANs, client servers, web-based systems, and databases.
- Experience with configuration of security devices such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, patch deployment, and risk assessment/ vulnerability scanners.
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DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents.
DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry.
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