Cybersecurity Engineer

The posting, as Hillpointe wrote it

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

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conditional access, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management concepts

• Experience running a vulnerability management program, including prioritization and driving remediation through other teams
• Direct participation in a recognized audit or compliance program such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or NIST Cybersecurity Framework, including evidence collection
• Ability to lead an incident calmly under pressure and to document what happened clearly afterward
• Strong written communication: policies, runbooks, findings, and executive-level summaries
• Sound judgment about what to escalate and what to handle independently, with the discretion the role requires

Preferred

• Experience administering a cloud data governance and compliance platform, including data loss prevention and eDiscovery
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Experience managing or holding a managed security service provider accountable to service levels
• Scripting or automation capability for reporting, evidence collection, and repetitive response tasks
• Experience administering a security awareness and simulated phishing platform
• Familiarity with secure access service edge or zero-trust network access technologies
• Exposure to real estate, construction, property management, or another multi-site operating environment
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CCSP, or vendor-specific cloud security certifications; certification is valued but does not substitute for demonstrated hands-on capability

Work Environment

• This is a fully cloud-based environment. Incumbents primarily work in an office setting with occasional travel between office locations required. The role requires availability outside standard business hours for security incidents, and as the primary on-call escalation. Occasional extended hours may be needed to support audit deadlines, remediation windows, or critical incidents.