Cybersecurity Engineer

WHY HILLPOINTE? Hillpointe is a fully integrated real estate development and investment management firm focused on developing market-rate workforce housing across the Sun Belt. Ranked at the top of NMHC's list of Builders and Developers, our team ensures best-in-class execution.
Built on its long and proven track record of real estate development, the firm’s investment approach is centered around its in-house general contracting expertise, enabling direct control of cost and delivery timeframe. For each project, Hillpointe directly controls land acquisition, land development, construction, procurement of building materials, asset management, and capital markets. This is more than just a job - it's a career-defining opportunity! At Hillpointe, you'll be part of a dynamic, innovative team that has tangible impacts on day-to-day operations and contributes directly to overall success.
Cybersecurity Engineer
The Cybersecurity Engineer owns the day-to-day security operations of the organization's fully cloud-based technology environment. This is the company's dedicated security role, and it operates with a high degree of independence: the incumbent drafts and sets the approved operational security agenda, oversees external MDR, drives vulnerability and access remediation with system owners, and carries the organization through external audit. Because the scope is broad by design, the role is structured to scale through leverage — directing managed security service providers and specialist vendors for around-the-clock monitoring and surge capacity, while retaining ownership of strategy, configuration, escalation, and outcomes in-house.
The successful candidate is equally comfortable investigating an alert at the console and explaining residual risk to business leadership. This is a high-visibility role with a direct line to decisions about how the organization protects its data, its residents' information, and its capital.
Key Responsibilities:
Threat Detection & Incident Response
Own detection and response across cloud identity, endpoint, email, and cloud infrastructure, including triage, containment, eradication, and recovery
Serve as primary incident responder and incident commander for security events, coordinating internal stakeholders, managed service providers, and outside counsel or forensics as required
Maintain and exercise the incident response plan, including tabletop exercises and post-incident reviews that produce tracked corrective actions
Develop and tune detection rules, alert logic, and automated response playbooks to reduce mean time to detect and mean time to respond
Build and maintain runbooks for recurring incident types so that response is repeatable and not dependent on a single individual
Security Monitoring, SIEM & Reporting
Administer the security information and event management (SIEM) platform, including data source onboarding, log ingestion health, normalization, and retention configuration
Manage ingestion cost and data tiering to keep monitoring coverage aligned with budget
Build and maintain dashboards, analytics rules, and workbooks that provide operational visibility into the security posture of the cloud environment
Produce recurring security reporting for IT leadership and executive stakeholders, translating technical findings into business risk and clear recommendations
Define and track security metrics — detection coverage, alert volume and disposition, patch and remediation timeliness, phishing susceptibility, and audit readiness
Vulnerability & Configuration Management