SIEM Engineer

Job Description:

The Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) organization is seeking a Splunk SIEM Specialist Engineer to join our growing SIEM & Security Analytics team. This candidate will join a team in managing a large hybrid enterprise/cloud deployment of Splunk and Enterprise Security and partnering with our SOC CIRT Threat Detection and Cyber Intel functions to deliver capabilities to improve their ability to defend Thomson Reuters from cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and stability of Splunk and Enterprise Security SIEM platform
• Create and optimize Splunk queries dashboards and reports to support business and operational needs.
• Monitor Splunk environment health and platform troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Splunk optimization by troubleshooting ingestion delays parsing errors and search performance issues
• Managing Splunk infrastructure in AWS cloud cloud operations experience is preferred
• Onboard new application and platform logs via syslog endpoint agents APIs Cribl HEC DB Connect etc.
• Experience in Managing Cribl Stream Deployments good hands On is expected in managing Cribl Pipelines
• Collaborate with our SOC CIRT Threat Detection and Cyber Intel teams on operationalizing use cases within Splunk ES to detect threats
• Create and maintain documentation to support SIEM platform
• Embedding automation into the deployment and management of the Splunk and Cribl infrastructure and application
• Implementation of industry best practices for managing an enterprise scale service and continuously seeking iterative improvements
• Facilitate high availability and disaster recovery capabilities
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic fast-changing and innovative environment
• An operating style that is collaborative energetic and results-oriented
• Demonstrates the ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid complex decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Computer Applications
• 5 years of Proven experience of working with large hybrid deployments of Splunk Splunk Cloud Cribl
• Strong knowledge of Splunk and Cribl architecture and components
• Proficiency in advanced SPL and Dashboard creation
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security is a must
• Experience integrating various data sources specially cloud
• Experience in AWS or Azure or GCP cloud operations is preferred
• Solid understanding of network transport protocols and services (TCP/IP syslog DNS ODBC SFTP SSH PKI etc.)
• General scripting proficiency (i.e. BASH Python regular expressions powershell etc.)
• Experience researching analyzing and resolving complex problems with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience managing multiple projects parallelly and deadlines
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Splunk Certifications in any of the following: Splunk Certified Admin Splunk Cloud Admin Splunk Certified Architect or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin preferred
• Cribl User or Admin certification is preferred
• Experience deploying managing and scaling cloud infrastructure in AWS or Azure
• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Jenkins Code Pipeline CloudFormation Terraform Ansible etc.
• General scripting proficiency (i.e. BASH Python regular expressions PowerShell etc.)
• Linux Networking or Security certifications a plus
• Experience working in agile project methodology
• Experience using Claude/ChatGPT/CoPilot AI tools to automate BAU work and troubleshooting.

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