Lab Cyber Defense Engineer

1 Opening- Mexico City**Role description**:**Lab Cyber Defense Engineer****Platform Analyst III - Cyber Security****Who We Are**:Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.UST is a mission-driven group of 29,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in more than 30 countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.With us, you’ll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.**You Are**:**The opportunity**:- Deploy & Maintain Lab-Specific Cybersecurity Platform: Implement and manage a specialized security solution designed for labs and manufacturing environments—distinct from traditional AV/EDR—to prevent malware infections from supplier devices and ensure the safety of our tools.- System Health & High Availability: Continuously monitor the health of the lab security platform, ensuring antivirus signatures and detection capabilities are up to date and maintaining high availability across lab sites.- Threat Detection & Response Process Development: Collaborate with our Security Operations Center (SOC) team to build an incident response process specifically for labrelated malware infections, ensuring swift and effective containment if supplier devices or lab tools are infected.- Security Compliance & Risk Mitigation: Enforce policies and best practices to ensure supplier devices comply with security standards before interacting with lab equipment. Provide security guidance to lab teams and suppliers as needed.- Troubleshooting & Technical Support: Diagnose and resolve issues related to the AV/EDR platform (specific to lab security), working closely with our Lab Infrastructure team- Security Enhancements & Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps in existing security processes and recommend improvements to strengthen defenses against evolving malware threats in lab environments.- Support Additional Lab Security Needs: Assist with occasional one-off security use cases within the lab setting, ensuring a holistic approach to securing the lab ecosystem.This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.**What you need**:- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).- 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, endpoint protection- Experience with malware detection and prevention solutions, particularly in non-traditional environments such as manufacturing or labs.- Strong understanding of device security, including USB security, endpoint protection, and controlled access environments.- Experience collaborating with a SOC team and developing security incident response processes.- Ability to troubleshoot complex security and system-related issues in a fast-paced environment.- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to engage with IT, security teams, lab personnel, and external suppliers.- Preferred Skills:- Experience working in a lab or manufacturing security role.- Experience with TxOne or Opswat technologies- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Controls) relevant to industrial environments.- Knowledge of advanced malware analysis techniques and security monitoring tools.- Experience with Next-Gen and SOAR technologies**Benefits**Employees receive mandatory and non-mandatory benefits such as fourteen (14) days of vacation beginning on the date of hire, vacation premium, ten (10) paid holidays, a Christmas Bonus of thirty (30) days’ pay, Monthly Food Vouchers, Saving Fund, and health insurance. Certain employees may be eligible for additional Company benefits beginning on the date of hire, including dental, disability and life insurance plans; four (4) days of personal time off per year, up to three (3) days of paid medical leave per year, and up to three (3) days of paid bereavement leave per year.**What we believe**:We proudly embrace the values that have shaped UST since day one. We build our culture of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity. These values inspire us to nurture a people-first, human centric culture that fosters diversity, prioritizes sustainable solutions, and keeps our people and clients at the forefront of all decisions.**Humility**:We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.**Humanity**:Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.**Integrity**:We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.**A