Splunk Architect

Job Title: Splunk Architect

Location: Buffalo, NY

Hire Type: W2 Contract

Work Model: Hybrid

No C2C, C2H, 1099 or Visa Sponsorship/Transfers Available

Nature & Scope:

Positional Overview

Are you a seasoned Splunk Architect looking for an exciting new challenge? Join our client s dynamic team where innovation and excellence are at the core of everything we do. They offer a collaborative and stimulating environment where your expertise will drive cutting-edge projects and shape the future of technology. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and want to make a significant impact, we want to hear from you. Apply now!

Role & Responsibility:

Tasks That Will Lead to Your Success

• Lead the design and architecture of the bank's SIEM infrastructure, ensuring its effectiveness, scalability, and alignment with industry standards and regulatory requirements
• Implement, configure, and optimize SIEM solutions to collect, correlate, and analyze security event data from various sources, such as network devices, servers, applications, and endpoints
• Develop and maintain SIEM use cases, correlation rules, alerts, and reports to identify and prioritize security incidents and potential threats
• Collaborate with other Cybersecurity and Security Engineering teams to investigate and resolve complex security incidents, conduct root cause analysis and recommending remediation actions
• Stay up to date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends, and proactively assess their potential impact on the bank's SIEM infrastructure
• Lead SIEM-related projects, including system upgrades, enhancements, and integration with other security tools and technologies
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior SIEM engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and skill development within the team
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as IT operations, compliance, and risk management, to ensure the Bank's security posture is in line with industry standards and regulatory requirements
• Participate in incident response exercises, tabletop simulations, and other security-related drills to enhance the bank's incident response capabilities
• Responsibilities may include infrastructure architecture and design, research and development of new or expanded systems, creation of technology standards and policies, thorough analysis of user requirements and operational constraints, unit test and system integration, and user acceptance testing
• Regularly and independently interact with business partners of varying associate and management levels to ensure clarity of the problem/opportunity and elicit business requirements

Skills & Experience:

Qualifications That Will Help You Thrive

• Minimum Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years advanced experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, system design and/or development for complex applications.
• 8+ years of experience engineering, architecting and implementing SIEM technologies with Splunk (architecting the environment, parsing data logs and onboarding applications)
• Certifications required: Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect or Splunk Core Certified Consultant
• Ability to translate complex business/functional requirements into structured high-quality implementations using any variety of industry standard approaches.
• Advanced technical, analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop alternative solutions to complex problems and recommend the best solution to the technology business, and project teams