Remote SIEM Engineer

Overview

Remote
Compensation information provided in the description
Full Time

Skills

Cyber security
IT management
Technical writing
Log management
Event management
IBM QRadar
Regular expression
Security analysis
SIEM
Strategy
Optimization
Automation
Collaboration
Regulatory Compliance
Splunk
Research and development
Documentation
Metrics
Network
Cloud computing

Job Details

Piper Companies is seeking a Remote SIEM Engineer (Cortex XSIAM) to join a premier cyber security organization. The SIEM Engineer will work with clients to determine a suitable detection strategy, helping to protect customers from threats, by designing and implementing correlation rules.

Responsibilities of the SIEM Engineer include:
  • Work with technical lead to develop log ingestion strategy
  • Contribute to detection strategy based on industry best practices
  • Detail step-by-step process to ingest high-quality log sources
  • Perform log source monitoring and optimization
  • Create high-quality correlation rules
  • Tune log sources and correlation rules
  • Be an Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SIEM, Correlation, and Log Source Ingestion
  • Recognize opportunities where automation can improve analyst alert handling
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure product adoption
  • Create technical documentation detailing SIEM aspects of the engagement
  • Travel to customer meetings and workshops as needed (10%)

Qualifications for the SIEM Engineer include:
  • 6+ years of deploying and integrating (SIEM) to enterprise to large enterprise-level
  • Coordinating and conducting event collection, log management, event management, compliance automation, and identity monitoring activities using (SIEM) platforms
  • The ability to create and develop correlation and detection rules, within a (SIEM) to support alerting capabilities
  • Experience working with and deploying a variety of SIEM technologies (i.e. Splunk, IBM QRadar)
  • Strong Regular Expression skills
  • Ability to understand logs, locating and understanding 3rd party documentation where needed
  • Familiarity with reports on the status of the SIEM to include metrics on items such as number of logging sources - log collection rate, and other performance metrics
  • Knowledge of Security Analysis & Response a plus, including both endpoint, network & cloud-based environments
  • Experience with Security Operation Centers tooling and processes

Compensation for the SIEM Engineer includes:
  • Salary: $140,000 - $160,000 -- $75/hr - $80/hr
  • Full benefits: Healthcare, Dental, Vision, 401k, Flexible work schedule