Remote SIEM Engineer Job Description

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Remote SIEM Engineer

Piper Companies - ,

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: $120,000 - $160,000
Full benefits: Healthcare, Dental, Vision, 401k, Flexible work schedule