Job Title: Information Security Engineer Location: Hybrid – Andover, MA | Full-Time Pay: $150,000 - $180,000 About ALKU Your next big career move starts here, join us at an organization that has been voted Best Place to Work for the past decade. Join one of the fastest-growing, top-rated staffing firms in the country. ALKU is a specialized consulting and staffing firm that connects exceptional talent with organizations across Technology, Life Sciences, Healthcare IT, Government, and other highly specialized industries. Since our founding, we've built our business around expertise, long-term relationships, and delivering an exceptional experience for both our clients and consultants. See it for yourself @LifeatALKU or on our website page: About ALKU!
🏢 About ALKU
Join one of the fastest-growing, top-rated staffing firms in the country. ALKU is a specialized consulting and staffing firm that connects exceptional talent with organizations across Technology, Life Sciences, Healthcare IT, Government, and other highly specialized industries. Since our founding, we've built our business around expertise, long-term relationships, and delivering an exceptional experience for both our clients and consultants. See it for yourself @LifeatALKU or on our website page: About ALKU!
🎯 The Role
You will own ALKU’s day-to-day cybersecurity operations and long-term security strategy, serving as the primary internal liaison to our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) and our Managed Service Provider (MSP). You bring deep security engineering experience, a strong networking foundation, and the ability to communicate risk clearly to leadership
✅ Key Responsibilities
Drive and maintain ALKU’s cybersecurity roadmap and controls, aligning initiatives with business risk and priorities
Establish and communicate security policies, standards, and procedures across the organization
Report on security posture and program maturity to senior leadership
Help drive risk assessments, remediation planning, and evaluate security investments and vendors
Serve as ALKU’s primary point of contact with MSSP and MSP managing alert tuning, detection coverage, response playbooks, and regular business reviews
Ensure SLAs and security commitments from both partners are met
Partner with the Engineering team on the security of ALKU's AWS environment, providing hands-on security expertise and guidance
Implement and maintain AWS security best practices across the environment
Oversee detection, triage, escalation, and response to security incidents
Partner with MSP to maintain ALKU’s incident response plan, tabletop exercise program, and post-incident review process
Provide on-call escalation support during high-severity incidents; occasional after-hours availability required
Analyze security data, alerts, and logs to identify risks and trends; maintain up-to-date awareness of the evolving threat landscape
Work with MSP and MSSP to tune Automatic Response Plays, SIEM and EDR tooling to reduce noise and improve detection
General understanding of networking expertise to assess and improve ALKU’s security architecture (firewalls, VPN, network segmentation, DNS security, and Zero Trust initiatives)
Review and advise on network changes, cloud connectivity, remote access design, and firewall rule sets in partnership with the MSP
Work with MSP to oversee Microsoft 365 and Entra ID (Azure AD) security configuration, Conditional Access, and MFA enforcement
Lead the security awareness training program including phishing simulations and role-based education
Maintain accurate security incident records, documentation, and audit-ready evidence libraries
Prepare regular security reports for internal stakeholders
📌 Required Qualifications
7+ years of progressive information security experience, with 2–3+ years in a senior or lead role
Hands-on AWS security experience: encryption and secure environment oversight
Networking knowledge: IP, routing/switching, firewall architecture, VPN, VLANs, DNS, IDS/IPS – a background in network engineering or network security is a strong differentiator
Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, EDR tools, and threat detection/response workflows;
Experience managing or overseeing MSSPs and/or MSPs in an enterprise or mid-market environment
Strong command of the Microsoft 365 security stack: Defender suite, Entra ID, Conditional Access
Ability to develop security strategy and communicate risk clearly to non-technical leadership
⭐ Desirable Experience
CISSP, CISM, CCNP Security, CompTIA CASP+, or equivalent certification
Experience with SASE, SD-WAN, or Zero Trust network architecture
Familiarity with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender compliance tooling
Cloud security experience (Azure, AWS)
Familiarity with CMMC 2.0 or NIST Controls
🎁 Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision
Life and disability insurance
Competitive 401(k) match
Equity plan
PTO package, plus birthdays off and volunteer time off
Paid holidays
Student Loan Reimbursement after one year as a full-time employee
Childcare reimbursement
Fitness reimbursement
A variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
