Cyber Security Engineer II
Agilysys · Alpharetta, GA · onsite
Agilysys delivers state-of-the-art software and services built exclusively for hospitality, helping organizations go beyond traditional property management (PMS), point-of-sale (POS), and food and beverage inventory and procurement systems. Its best-in-class solutions operate independently or as a unified ecosystem that connects data and workflows across an operation, property or enterprise. Powered by intelligent guest profiles, data-driven capabilities, and embedded artificial intelligence (AI), Agilysys is architected on a unified data model with a single set of APIs that create shared operational memory across all systems, enabling guest-specific insights to be acted on in real time at any touchpoint. Agilysys delivers advantage through pace and integration, transforming hospitality technology from a system of record into a system of action that accelerates innovation and the rapid delivery of new capabilities. Agilysys serves a 100% hospitality customer base, including hotels and resorts, casinos, cruise lines, corporate and campus dining, healthcare, senior living, and entertainment venues worldwide. www.agilysys.com
*This position is a Full-Time In-Office Role*
**Local Candidates Only. Position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.**
Position Summary
The Cyber Security Engineer II is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and improving security technologies, controls, and processes that protect the organization’s infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, and sensitive information.
This hands-on role supports security engineering, cloud security, vulnerability management, security automation, incident response, and emerging cybersecurity threats. The Cyber Security Engineer II independently manages moderately complex security initiatives, troubleshoots security technologies, and collaborates with IT, Product Security, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, and Development teams to strengthen the organization’s overall security posture.
The role also supports the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence within cybersecurity operations by using approved AI technologies to improve efficiency, enhance threat detection, accelerate investigations, and automate repetitive security activities.
Why This Role Matters
As the organization expands its cloud, SaaS, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities, effective security engineering is essential to protecting business operations and sensitive information. This role helps ensure that security controls remain effective, scalable, and aligned with evolving technologies and threats.
Through technical expertise, cross-functional partnership, and continuous improvement, the Cyber Security Engineer II helps reduce security risk, strengthen system resilience, improve operational efficiency, and balance security requirements with business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Security Engineering and Technology Management
- Implement, configure, maintain, and optimize enterprise security technologies across cloud, SaaS, and corporate environments.
- Support endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, SIEM, cloud security monitoring, vulnerability scanning, identity security, and data protection technologies.
- Troubleshoot security-tool configurations, integrations, performance issues, and operational failures.
- Evaluate security alerts, tool outputs, and configuration discrepancies to identify opportunities to improve security effectiveness.
- Implement security controls and configuration standards aligned with organizational policies and industry best practices.
- Assist with testing, integrating, deploying, and documenting new security technologies.
- Monitor the effectiveness of implemented controls and recommend improvements that increase coverage and reduce operational complexity.
- Support integration of security controls into cloud infrastructure, application platforms, and enterprise technology environments.
Cloud and Infrastructure Security
- Implement and maintain security controls across public cloud, government cloud, and segmented cloud environments, as applicable.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure teams to address security misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, and insecure configurations.
- Support cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and configuration-compliance initiatives.
- Assist with hardening cloud workloads, containers, virtual machines, and supporting infrastructure.
- Support secure baseline configurations and security standards, including CIS benchmarks.
- Participate in security reviews of infrastructure changes, cloud services, and new technology implementations.
- Assist with validating curated container images, approved software libraries, and standardized infrastructure configurations.
Vulnerability and Risk Management
- Perform security assessments, configuration reviews, vulnerability analyses, and security testing.
- Partner with Vulnerability Management, IT, Cloud Engineering, and Product Security teams to support vulnerability remediation and verification.
- Investigate discrepancies among security-assessment tools, infrastructure inventories, and patch-management platforms.
- Validate that security controls and remediation activities adequately address identified risks.
- Maintain awareness of emerging vulnerabilities, threat-actor techniques, and security advisories.
- Support security-risk assessments and document technical findings, recommendations, and mitigation activities.
Artificial Intelligence Security and Responsible AI Adoption
- Use approved AI-enabled security tools and generative AI technologies to accelerate troubleshooting, analysis, configuration reviews, and technical investigations.
- Apply AI-assisted analysis to identify patterns, correlate findings, and improve detection of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and control weaknesses.
- Use approved AI coding assistants to develop and improve security scripts, automation routines, detection logic, and technical documentation.
- Identify opportunities to use AI to streamline recurring security-engineering activities and reduce manual processes.
- Evaluate AI-generated technical recommendations for accuracy, security implications, and operational suitability before implementation.
- Maintain appropriate human validation and oversight of AI-assisted security decisions.
- Assist in evaluating risks associated with AI-enabled applications, AI agents, large language models, and third-party AI services.
- Support controls addressing prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, excessive permissions, insecure AI integrations, and unauthorized access.
- Support monitoring and investigation of security events involving AI applications, automated agents, and AI-connected services.
- Help enforce organizational requirements governing approved AI usage, data handling, access controls, and secure integration.
Security Automation and Process Improvement
- Develop and maintain scripts and automated workflows using Python, PowerShell, APIs, and security-orchestration platforms.
- Automate configuration validation, evidence collection, alert enrichment, reporting, and security-control verification.
- Integrate security platforms to improve visibility, operational consistency, and data accuracy.
- Troubleshoot automation failures, integration issues, and inconsistencies between connected technologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, reduce manual effort, and increase operational effectiveness.
- Document automation workflows, implementation requirements, and operating procedures.
Security Operations and Incident Response
- Provide technical security-engineering assistance during incidents escalated by Security Operations.
- Support incident investigations through log analysis, troubleshooting, control validation, and security-tool configuration changes.
- Assist with containment measures,