Description

*) Primarily assist in the planning, design, deployment, administration and operational support of enterprise SIEM and XDR capabilities, including:
*) Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM  and Cortex XDR platform engineering, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting.
*) Multi-tenant agency onboarding, tenant-specific configuration, role-based access, data segregation, dashboards and reporting
Detection engineering, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, watchlists, suppression logic and false-positive reduction.
*) Secondarily assist in the planning, design, deployment and operational support of log management and security data pipelines, including:
*) Cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, routing, parsing, normalization, enrichment, filtering, replay and ingestion
*) Onboarding and health monitoring of cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS and custom application telemetry
Log volume, retention, performance and cost optimization while maintaining security and compliance requirements
*) Integrations with ticketing, case management, notification, identity, threat intelligence and other enterprise systems as needed
*) Develop, test, deploy and maintain automated response workflows and playbooks for enrichment, triage, containment, escalation, notifications, case management and incident response.
*) Create and maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, escalation matrices, troubleshooting guides, architecture diagrams, data-flow documentation, use-case catalogs and analyst knowledge articles.
*) Support tier 1 through tier 3 soc analysts and incident responders through platform troubleshooting, detection tuning, threat hunting, technical escalation, knowledge transfer and shift handoffs.
*) Monitor and report on ingestion health, platform availability, alert volumes, detection coverage, false positives, service levels, mean time to detect, mean time to respond and tenant-specific operational metrics.
*) Ensure high availability, resilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management and controlled change processes for SIEM, XDR and supporting log pipeline services.
*) Collaborate with security architects, engineers, analysts and agency stakeholders to align solutions with business goals, industry-standard frameworks, regulatory requirements and organizational risk tolerance.
 
Required Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
*) Hands-on Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR design, implementation, administration and operational support.
*) Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center operations.
*) Cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing and ingestion.
*) Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
*) Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources.
*) Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.
 
Additional Skills & Duties:
*) Experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic.
*) Strong experience creating and managing complex playbooks.
*) Familiarity with industry-standard security and compliance frameworks and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation.
*) Experience supporting Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts, threat hunting, incident response and 24x7 operational handoffs.
 
Required Education/Certifications:
*) Bachelor's degree in an information technology or information security related field.
*) 8 years of relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
*) 5 years of experience in supporting large it environments and/or system deployments.
 
Preferred Education/Certifications:
*) CISSP, Security+ or GIAC certification.
*) Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform certification

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree