Azure Sentinel SIEM Engineer

Title: Azure Sentinel SIEM Engineer
Terms: Contract

Location: Remote

Top Skills: Azure, KQL, SIEM, Industry Certs (not required but heavily preferred)

Microsoft Azure Sentinel SIEM Engineer

Senior Secure Innovation and Resilience (SI&R) Resource - Microsoft Azure Professional who is experienced with Kusto Query Language (KQL) and design of security-specific alerts. The senior resource will work within the current information security team and perform as a lead technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) that will also liaise to the appropriate business units (BU) to support security strategy and ensure accuracy of related data.
Resource will evaluate specific logging, monitoring, and alerting events for efficiency and provide industry best practice recommendation for continuous improvement as Navy Federal Credit Unions application portfolio is moved into a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. Additionally, the resource will follow Navy Federal Credit Unions established delivery cadence for either agile (methods for sprint planning, sprint refinements, sprint standup, and retrospectives) or traditional waterfall where appropriate.
Resource will provide professional services deeply rooted in Azure Log Analytics with focus on Kusto Query Language (KQL). The resource will collaborate with NFCU's technical and business teams as needed to determine any deficiencies and ensure continuous improvement as well as take part in any related agile or traditional development engagements which ultimately integrate with the team's application portfolio.

The resource shall provide the following analytical, development, and support services:
Evaluate specific application's capability for logging, monitoring, and alerting information in the NFCU environment either on-prem, cloud, or hybrid
Serve as a critical Quality Assurance (QA) point within a four-stage process used to integrate NFCU's application portfolio to Splunk Logging and Alerting
Evaluate the completeness and accuracy of the information provided and verify that the log entries meet criteria provided for monitoring and alerting
Validate the submitted information through use of Microsoft (KQL) and assist with mapping to data in Splunk
Identify deficiencies and revert the workflow as needed to collect additional information when encountering inaccurate or incomplete information
Interact with the appropriate Business Unit (BU) contact and/or technical contact to gain clarity on difficult to obtain, incomplete, or inaccurate information

Critical Skills