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Security Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Tustin, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 12500 - 13000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
8 September 2026 (18 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
6 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.
Job Title:Security Engineer
Location(s):Tustin CA
Job Description:
As a SIEM Engineer for Cortex XSIAM you will be responsible for assisting with the log migration and detection strategy of our customers. You will work closely with the technical lead to ensure that all of the relevant log sources are on boarded and ingested into XSIAM in accordance with industry best practices and customer requirements. You will then work to determine a suitable detection strategy helping to protect customers from threats by designing and implementing correlation rules.
Your Impact
Job Title:Security Engineer
Location(s):Tustin CA
Job Description:
As a SIEM Engineer for Cortex XSIAM you will be responsible for assisting with the log migration and detection strategy of our customers. You will work closely with the technical lead to ensure that all of the relevant log sources are on boarded and ingested into XSIAM in accordance with industry best practices and customer requirements. You will then work to determine a suitable detection strategy helping to protect customers from threats by designing and implementing correlation rules.
Your Impact
- Work with technical lead to develop log ingestion strategy
- Contribute to detection strategy based on industry best practices
- Detail step by step process to ingest high quality log sources
- Perform log source monitoring and optimization
- Create high quality correlation rules
- Tune log sources and correlation rules
- Be an SME for SIEM Correlation and Log Source Ingestion
- Recognize opportunities where automation can improve analyst alert handling
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure product adoption
- Create technical documentation detailing SIEM aspects of the engagement
- Travel to customer meetings and workshops as needed (10%)
Your Experience
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills both internally and externally
- Fluent English is a requirement - Any other language is a plus
- 6 years of deploying and integrating (SIEM) to enterprise to large enterprise-level
- Coordinating and conducting event collection log management event management compliance automation and identity monitoring activities using (SIEM) platforms
- The ability to create and develop correlation and detection rules within a (SIEM) to support alerting capabilities
- Experience working with and deploying a variety of SIEM technologies (i.e Splunk IBM QRadar)
- A proven ability to offer suggestions on detection strategy based on customer requirements
- Strong Regular Expression skills
- Ability to understand logs locating and understanding 3rd party documentation where needed
- Familiarity with reports on the status of the SIEM to include metrics on items such as number of logging sources - log collection rate and other performance metrics
- Knowledge of Security Analysis & Response a plus including both endpoint network & cloud based environments
- 4 years experience with Security Operation Centers tooling and processes
- Relevant bachelors degree or industry recognized qualifications (CISSP GIAC SIEM Vendor Qualification etc)
- Ability to read and understand technical design documentation
Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identify national origin age protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Required Experience:
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