Security Engineer Logging and Monitoring

Join John Hancocks CyberDefense team to help implement Manulifes global Logging & Monitoring Standard. You will support centralized event logging to our SIEM ensure critical applications and security controls produce required log events and align event data to security use cases.

The role focuses on reviewing logging compliance surveys from application teams assisting with log onboarding validating event content and identifying opportunities to automate existing processes. You will partner with Application Platform and Asset Owners to onboard and validate log events enabling effective detection and response and cross-team collaboration.

Position responsibilities

Support application and platform teams in identifying security relevant events defining event criticality and ensuring required event details are captured
Assist with onboarding application and infrastructure logs into the centralized SIEM platform
Guide teams on log configuration requirements aligned with enterprise logging standards and verify successful ingestion parsing and data quality
Review logging compliance surveys and partner with application teams to address gaps and support remediation
Collaborate with teams to complete annual logging attestations and compliance activities
Validate that security controls and critical applications produce required log events to support detection and response use cases
Identify opportunities to automate logging onboarding validation and compliance processes to improve efficiency and consistency
Maintain and administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers that support centralized logging pipelines
Develop and maintain lightweight scripts to streamline log onboarding enrichment validation and reporting workflows
Partner with CyberDefense Platform Application and Infrastructure teams to strengthen cross team collaboration and observability maturity

Required Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

Interest or experience in AI or machine learning particularly applied to automation analytics or observability
Exposure to security operations monitoring or cyber defense concepts
Curiosity and willingness to learn how security detection and response is enabled through high quality log data

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

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