Cyber Security Engineer

Come join our family! Microbac Laboratories is an essential business offering competitive pay and benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, generous paid time off including vacation, holidays and flex-time, a wellness program, referral bonus, tuition reimbursement and more!

Whether you are just starting your career in science or looking to further it, Microbac will put you on the path of an exciting career with room to grow. Quality, safety, giving back to our communities, diversity and inclusion, customer success and employee wellbeing are part of our core culture. We are looking for motivated individuals to join our family as a Cybersecurity Engineer.

ABOUT MICROBAC

Microbac Laboratories, Inc. is a premier commercial laboratory testing firm that partners with clients worldwide, offering laboratory solutions to the life science, food and nutrition, and environmental industries and serves our clients with the utmost expertise and respect for their market requirements, constraints, and challenges. We embody a company-wide commitment to exceptional customer experience, which has been refined over nearly 50 years of trusted, analytical and measurement experience.

Through our network of laboratories, offices, and field services, we have the flexibility to meet the unique requirements for each client, project, and scope.

As a privately held third-party testing company, Microbac operates with a commitment to safety, quality, and compliance. Our diverse work portfolio includes broad accreditation offerings and tested insights across the environmental, food and nutrition and life science markets.

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a hands-on Cybersecurity Engineer to own day-to-day security operations and incident response across our network of 30+ laboratories. This role is execution-focused and ideal for a candidate who enjoys working in lean environments, partnering closely with Infrastructure and Quality teams, and directly configuring and operating security controls.

You will serve as the primary escalation point for security incidents while helping mature the organization's security posture as the business grows.

Essential Functions:

• Own daily cybersecurity operations, monitoring alerts and responding to incidents
• Act as the primary escalation point for security events
• Lead incident response from detection through remediation and root cause analysis
• Configure and maintain security controls across business platforms
• Manage identity, access controls, MFA, Conditional Access, and privileged access models
• Perform hands-on investigations
• Develop, test, and maintain incident response playbooks and escalation paths
• Create security policies and translate them into enforceable technical controls
• Partner closely with Infrastructure on architecture, network changes, cloud services, and new tools
• Continuously assess risk, identify gaps, and implement practical security improvements
• Partner with Quality to ensure compliance with industry standard regulations
• Set a positive example through high standards and professional conduct.
• Continuously monitor emerging cybersecurity threats, regulatory changes, and industry best practices to keep organizational security strategies current and effective.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity related positions
• Willingness to travel to lab locations as needed to provide on-site IT support.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: CompTIA Security+, CompTIA CySA+, GSEC, CompTIA PenTest+, CCSP, CISSP, CISM
• Knowledge of advanced persistent threats (APTs) and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Fundamental understanding of Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux operating systems
• Fundamental understanding of OSI model, basic networking and troubleshooting concepts
• Experience with programming or scripting, including PowerShell, Bash, Python, Yara, and Perl
• Experience in managing SSO/IAM, email security, phishing and user awareness training
• Experience in EDR platforms
• Experience with cloud deployments such as Azure, AWS or similar platforms
• Experience working with distributed teams and other cross functional stakeholders
• Familiarity with commercial solutions for logging and security event management, including SIEM or SOAR platforms
• Familiarity with vulnerability management and IDS/IPS
• Demonstrated intermediate experience with security incident detection, response frameworks, and established incident handling procedures Understanding and knowledge of various log formats from a variety of network and computer devices
• Knowledge of Cyber risks and threats related to Cyber attackers
• Knowledge of recent Cyber events and interpreting kill chain process and threat impacts
• Presentation, analytical, and critical-thinking skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and workload

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands and working conditions described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools; talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and sit.
• The employee must occassionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision and depth perception.

Working Conditions:

• Home internet acceptable for remote computer work.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• This job may require travel less than 20%

As a privately held third-party testing company, Microbac operates with a commitment to safety, quality, and compliance. Our diverse work portfolio includes broad accreditation offerings and tested insights across the environmental, food and life science markets.

OTHER:

This job description is not an exhaustive list of all duties an employee may be required to perform. Microbac reserves the right to revise the job description at any time.

Employment is at-will. Microbac, promotes a drug-free, alcohol-free workplace. Applicants considered for hire must pass a drug test before beginning work. Refusal to submit to testing will result in disqualification of further employment consideration.

Microbac is an Equal Opportunity Employer - We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.