A client with Kforce is seeking a IT Security Engineer IV to join their team. This is a West Coast remote position. Duties: * Respond to escalated security events and investigations, coordinating communications and executing the Incident Response Plan as needed * Lead and provide support for critical security incidents, delivering timely and clear status updates to stakeholders * Provide clear and concise communications in collaborative environments, stakeholder verbal reports, and senior leadership presentations * Perform comprehensive host, network, and cloud forensic analysis to determine the root cause, scope, and impact of security incidents while preserving evidence * Analyze and correlate signals from SIEM, EDR, and other platform logs to validate and triage threats * Develop, maintain, and continuously improve incident response playbooks and runbooks to ensure prompt and compliant actions * Design and implement automated security workflows and response actions using platforms such as Workato and ServiceNow * Partner with Detection Engineering to create and tune detections based on lessons learned from incidents * Support and enhance security for AWS infrastructure through MCP (Model Context Protocol) server engineering * Research and apply AI, Large Language Models, and agentic SOC concepts to enhance threat detection, security operations, and incident response * Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams to ensure incident response workflows align with business and regulatory requirements * Assess vulnerabilities, propose effective remediation strategies, and stay current on emerging security threats and countermeasures * Provide training and guidance on security best practices to organizational partners and mentor other incident responders * Contribute to post-incident reviews and the development of metrics to drive continuous program improvement