SIEM Engineer Contract Remote (Onsite in SC if required)

Job Title: SIEM Engineer
Location: 100% Remote. Preference will be given to local candidates who can come to the office as needed for client and departmental meetings trainings and other onsite activities.

Interview Process: 1-2 Rounds of Virtual person availability for interviews preferred.
Duration: 12 Months
Employment Type: Contract
Experience Required: 10 Years

Project Scope:

We are seeking an experienced Security Architect Consultant SIEM Engineer to support the Department of Administrations Division of Information Security. This role is focused on the design implementation administration optimization and operational support of Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR in a large-scale multi-tenant enterprise security environment.

The successful candidate will work alongside enterprise security architects engineers and a 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) team to enhance SIEM XDR detection engineering automation incident response and security monitoring capabilities across multiple state agencies. This role also provides secondary support for Cribl data pipelines log management and telemetry onboarding.

Key Responsibilities:

Design implement configure and maintain Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR platforms.

Support multi-tenant SIEM environments including tenant onboarding role-based access data segregation dashboards and reporting.

Develop and optimize: Detection rules Correlation rules Analytics Threat hunting queries Watchlists Alert suppression logic

Design and manage Cribl log pipelines including: Data modeling Parsing Normalization Enrichment Routing Filtering Replay Log ingestion

Integrate telemetry from cloud endpoint network identity SaaS Linux Windows and custom applications.

Develop and maintain automated playbooks and response workflows using Python and Bash.

Support incident response threat hunting and SOC operations.

Create and maintain: Runbooks SOPs Architecture diagrams Data flow documentation Knowledge articles

Support Tier 1Tier 3 SOC analysts through troubleshooting tuning and knowledge transfer.

Monitor SIEM health ingestion availability detection coverage false positives MTTD MTTR and operational metrics.

Ensure platform resilience backup recovery lifecycle management and change control.

Collaborate with security architects engineers analysts and business stakeholders to improve enterprise security capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR architecture implementation administration and operational support.
  
• Experience supporting enterprise SIEM platforms within large multi-tenant environments.
  
• Experience supporting 24x7 Security Operations Centers (SOC).
  
• Strong detection engineering experience including:
  
• Correlation rules
  
• Threat hunting
  
• Analytics
  
• Dashboards
  
• Alert tuning
  
• False-positive reduction
  
• Hands-on Cribl administration including:
  
• Data modeling
  
• Log pipeline design
  
• Parsing
  
• Normalization
  
• Enrichment
  
• Routing
  
• Ingestion
  
• Experience developing automation using:
  
• Python
  
• Bash
  
• Experience onboarding cloud endpoint network identity SaaS Windows Linux and custom application telemetry.
  
• Strong knowledge of:
  
• Enterprise security architecture
  
• Incident response
  
• Secure system design
  
• Networking
  
• Identity & Access Management
  
• Cybersecurity frameworks
  

Preferred Skills:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Strong ability to create: Business Requirements Documents (BRD) Functional Requirements Documents (FRD) Use Cases Process Documentation

Experience gathering requirements through stakeholder interviews policy documents regulations and business rules analysis.

Knowledge of business modeling techniques and graphical process flow tools.

Ability to communicate effectively with: Executive management Business users Project managers Technical teams External stakeholders

Education
Bachelors degree in Information Technology Information Security Computer Science or related field.

Eight (8) years of relevant experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Minimum five (5) years supporting large enterprise IT environments or system deployments.

Preferred Certifications

• CISSP
  
• Security
  
• GIAC
  
• Palo Alto Cortex Certification
  
• Cribl Certification
  
• Other relevant SIEM or cybersecurity certifications