Senior Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist

Daily rhythm mixes complex platform troubleshooting, infrastructure design, escalation handling, and consultation with newer engineers. You'll often work across SIEM, EDR, IDS, and pipeline tools at a depth where you're shaping rather than maintaining. Incidents and on-call rotations can reshape the schedule.

The breadth of platforms and consequences intensifies at the senior level — your decisions affect how the SOC operates, and your judgment is leaned on for hard calls. Coordination with security analysts, infrastructure, vendors, and leadership is constant. The work blends architecture, operations, and informal mentoring.

People who thrive here typically combine deep system-administration skills, security-tooling fluency, and a coaching mindset. Curiosity about detection and response, plus durable on-call composure, often matter more than years alone in the role.