Lead Cybersecurity Specialist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Legence

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

🤝 B2B

⚡ Energy

Construction • B2B • Energy

Legence is a Nasdaq-listed (LGN) provider of engineering, consulting, installation, and maintenance services that improve building performance and reliability for mission‑critical and technically demanding facilities. Founded in 1914 and now a Blackstone portfolio company, Legence delivers MEP engineering and design, program and project management, HVAC and process piping installation/fabrication, and ongoing preventative and corrective maintenance, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, net‑zero building design, and distributed generation. The company serves high-growth sectors including data centers, semiconductors, precision manufacturing, life sciences, healthcare, education, public sector, and commercial real estate, and reports large in-house teams of engineers, consultants, technicians, and craftspeople.

📋 Description

• Advance Legence’s overall security posture through architecture, risk strategy, security controls, and cross-functional leadership • Lead a team of cyber analysts and provide team leadership, mentoring, escalation support, and career development • Implement and govern secure cloud architectures across platforms • Develop, enforce, and govern cybersecurity controls, including identity, access management, and workload protection • Partner with engineering teams to embed security into cloud-native development and DevOps processes through DevSecOps • Evolve the security risk management program and conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, and control evaluations • Translate technical risks into business impact and present recommendations to senior leadership • Develop and maintain automation frameworks and scripts to improve detection, response, and compliance • Integrate SIEM, EDR, CSPM, and other security tooling into a cohesive security ecosystem • Oversee monitoring and detection strategies across networks, endpoints, and cloud environments • Lead incident response, including triage, containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements • Improve detection use cases and response playbooks • Lead vulnerability management, including scanning, prioritization, and remediation strategies • Coordinate penetration testing and adversary simulations • Support governance, risk, and compliance initiatives, including NIST, ISO, and SOC 2 • Lead security assessments, audits, and third-party risk reviews • Contribute to cybersecurity strategy, roadmap planning, and security metrics reporting • Collaborate with IT, engineering, and business stakeholders to align security initiatives with organizational goals • Monitor emerging threats, technologies, and industry trends and provide proactive recommendations to leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Location: Remote, United States; near a Legence office preferred • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience) • 5–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated progression into senior or lead responsibilities • Deep expertise in cloud security, network security, and enterprise security architecture • Strong experience with SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and encryption • Proven experience in risk management, incident response, and vulnerability management • Proficiency in scripting or programming, such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash, for automation and security engineering • Experience with security frameworks and compliance standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or GIAC preferred • Experience leading security initiatives or small teams preferred