SIEM Engineer

DPP is seeking a SIEM Engineer for an opportunity with our client in Columbia, SC.

Work Location

Fully remote

Duration

12 months with possibility of extension

Terms

W2 Contract

Responsibilities

• This position is 100% remote and will participate in a monthly on-call rotation supporting a 24x7 security operations center serving multiple agencies.
• Other after-hours work may be required as needed.
• Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR platform engineering, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting.
• Multi-tenant agency onboarding, tenant-specific configuration, role-based access, data segregation, dashboards and reporting.
• Detection engineering, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, watchlists, suppression logic and false-positive reduction.
• Cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, routing, parsing, normalization, enrichment, filtering, replay and ingestion.
• Onboarding and health monitoring of cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS and custom application telemetry.
• Log volume, retention, performance and cost optimization while maintaining security and compliance requirements.
• Integrations with ticketing, case management, notification, identity, threat intelligence and other enterprise systems as needed.
• Develop, test, deploy and maintain automated response workflows and playbooks for enrichment, triage, containment, escalation, notifications, case management and incident response.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, escalation matrices, troubleshooting guides, architecture diagrams, data-flow documentation, use-case catalogs and analyst knowledge articles.
• Support Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts and incident responders through platform troubleshooting, detection tuning, threat hunting, technical escalation, knowledge transfer and shift handoffs.
• Monitor and report on ingestion health, platform availability, alert volumes, detection coverage, false positives, service levels, mean time to detect, mean time to respond and tenant-specific operational metrics.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management and controlled change processes for SIEM, XDR and supporting log pipeline services.
• Collaborate with security architects, engineers, analysts and agency stakeholders to align solutions with business goals, industry-standard frameworks, regulatory requirements and organizational risk tolerance.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR design, implementation, administration and operational support.
• Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) operations.
• Cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing and ingestion.
• Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or information security related field.
• Eight years of relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
• Five years of experience in supporting large IT environments and/or system deployments.

Preferred Education/Certifications

• CISSP, Security+ or GIAC certification.
• Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform certification.

Additional Skills & Duties

• Strong experience creating and managing complex playbooks.
• Experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic.
• Experience supporting Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts, threat hunting, incident response and 24x7 operational handoffs.
• Familiarity with industry-standard security and compliance frameworks and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation.

Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Interested?

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