SIEM Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a SIEM Engineer to join a fast growing, highly reputable cyber security company with 100% remote work. The SIEM Engineer will work closely with the technical lead to ensure that all the relevant log sources are onboarded and ingested into XSIAM in accordance with industry best practices. 

Responsibilities of the SIEM Engineer will 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 SME for SIEM, Correlation and Log Source Ingestion

• Recognize opportunities where automation can improve analyst alert handling

• Create technical documentation detailing SIEM aspects of the engagement

Qualifications for the SIEM Engineer include:

• 4 years’ experience with Security Operation Centers tooling and processes

• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, SIEM Vendor Qualification etc)

• 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)

• A proven ability to offer suggestions on detection strategy based on customer requirements

• 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

Compensation for the SIEM Engineer include:

• Salary Range: $120,000 - $130,000 | $58.00hr -$64.00hr **depending on experience**

• Full Benefits: Fully Remote, Cigna Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, etc.

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