Job Overview
Location
Kansas City, MO SOC
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Engineering
Date Posted
July 21, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As Lead Cloud Security Engineer on the purple team, you will sit with the Adversary Research Team and close the loop between offense and defense.
- • You will emulate current adversary techniques against our detection stack, measure how well we catch and respond to them, and feed the gaps back into detection engineering and the SOC.
- • This is a hands-on role for someone equally comfortable on the red side, building and running emulations, and on the blue side, reading telemetry and writing detections.
- • You will identify and address gaps in detection, research and design detection use-cases to close it, and validate through testing where that is merited.
- • You will also develop detection strategies from scratch for high-blast-radius technologies, crown-jewel systems, and areas of high risk or exposure.
- • Additionally, you will track the actors, malware, and tooling active against our customers’ verticals, and dissect their tradecraft down to the behaviors that matter for detection and emulation.
- • You will design and recreate real attacks to test and validate detections and controls.
- • You will track and report results, developing reporting that gives leadership and customers a straight answer on where our defenses stand.
🎯 Requirements
- • 7+ years in offensive security, detection engineering, or a blend of the two, with hands-on purple team or adversary emulation experience.
- • Strong red-side skills: adversary tradecraft, command and control, evasion, and building emulation plans that reflect how real intrusions unfold.
- • Strong blue-side skills: writing and tuning detections and analyzing endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry in a SIEM or EDR.
- • Ability to measure detection effectiveness and communicate results clearly to engineers, analysts, and leadership.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive salary and benefits package.
- • A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
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About Tenex.AI, Inc
Tenex.AI is a cybersecurity company that offers an AI-native managed detection and response (MDR) platform. It combines automated threat detection, risk management, and incident response capabilities with human oversight to identify, contain, and remediate security incidents in real time. Tenex integrates with cloud and security stacks from providers like Google, Microsoft, and others to reduce response times and streamline operations.
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