Senior Network Security Engineer - State of Texas - Remote

Job Title: Senior Network Security Engineer

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Austin, TX (Remote)

Description:

This project will optimize the agency s CrowdStrike SIEM and related CrowdStrike services to improve threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities. The contractor will expand and tune telemetry, integrate additional highvalue log sources, enhance security dashboards, and support the rollout of additional CrowdStrike services. The effort will increase visibility into endpoint and security risk, improve signal quality and correlation, and provide security leadership with clear insight into security operations effectiveness and overall risk posture.

Expected Outcomes:

• Expanded and optimized CrowdStrike SIEM telemetry coverage
• Integration of additional highvalue log sources
• Improved dashboards for operational and executive visibility
• Enhanced detection fidelity and monitoring effectiveness
• Clearer insight for leadership into endpoint risk and security operations performance

Duties to Be Performed:

• Assess current CrowdStrike SIEM configuration, telemetry coverage, and log ingestion
• Enable and tune additional CrowdStrike telemetry to improve visibility and signal quality
• Identify and integrate new highvalue log sources into CrowdStrike SIEM
• Develop and refine security dashboards aligned to SOC and executive use cases
• Assist with technical enablement and rollout of additional CrowdStrike services
• Validate data quality, parsing, and correlation within the SIEM
• Coordinate with Security Operations, IT Operations, and system owners
• Identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in monitoring and detection
• Provide weekly status updates and monthly executivelevel progress summaries
• Deliver supporting documentation and recommendations to sustain improvements

Deliverables:

• Summary of work performed and capabilities delivered
• Documentation supporting all telemetry enablement, log integrations, and dashboard implementations
• Measurable improvements in monitoring, detection, or visibility
• Recommendations for future enhancements or next-phase efforts

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