Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Prague - Czech Republic

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Are you passionate about security engineering and looking to make a significant impact in a leading biopharmaceutical company
Join our company as a Sr. Specialist Engineer and play a key role in designing implementing and optimizing our next-generation security telemetry and analytics platforms.

You will drive complex engineering initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact security outcomes.
If you have hands-on technical depth and solution ownership this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Responsibilities:

Design and optimize enterprise-scale Sentinel SIEM/analytics solutions.
Architect and manage ADX clusters for scalable cost-optimized query and hunting workloads.
Build and tune Cribl pipelines (Edge & Stream) for telemetry routing enrichment and normalization.
Integrate across the Azure stack (Logic Apps Event Hub Functions Key Vault etc.) for automation and resilience.
Design and engineer ingestion pipelines from multiple log sources into Sentinel/ADX.
Develop and optimize KQL queries detection rules dashboards and workbooks.
Ensure telemetry pipelines are reliable scalable and compliant with enterprise logging standards.
Drive performance benchmarking and cost governance for large-scale data ingestion.
Act as a technical SME and advisor for cross-functional security and infrastructure teams.
Mentor and support Specialist-level engineers to uplift team skills in Sentinel ADX and Cribl.
Partner with incident response threat hunting and cloud engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications:

Required

610 years of IT/security engineering experience with 35 years focused on Microsoft Sentinel & Azure security stack.
Proven expertise in ADX schema design query optimization and capacity planning.
Hands-on experience with Cribl (Stream Edge) for enterprise-scale log routing and transformation.
Strong proficiency in KQL Azure Logic Apps and data ingestion pipelines.
Deep understanding of SIEM architectures SOAR automation and cloud-native security controls.

Preferred

Experience with ServiceNow SIR or equivalent case management integrations.
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping for detection engineering.
Scripting skills (PowerShell Python Bash) for automation.
Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills:

Certificate Services Cloud Security Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Analytics Cybersecurity Operations Incident Response Information Security Microsoft Azure Sentinel Network Segmentation Operational Technology (OT) Security Security Analytics System Designs Technical Advice

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

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Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

01/1/2026

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Job DescriptionAre you passionate about security engineering and looking to make a significant impact in a leading biopharmaceutical companyJoin our company as a Sr. Specialist Engineer and play a key role in designing implementing and optimizing our next-generation security telemetry and analytics ...