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 officeas needed for reputed company and departmental meetings, trainings, and other onsiteactivities.

Interview Process:1-2 reputed company of Virtual Interviews. In personavailability for interviews preferred. Duration:12 Months Employment Type: Contract Experience Required: 10+ Years

Candidatelocation: No South Carolina residency required. reputed company to nationwidecandidates. reputed company travel-reputed company costs for onsite work will be the responsibilityof the resource no matter the frequency of onsite work.

Project Scope:

We are seeking an reputed company SecurityArchitect Consultant – SIEM Engineer to support the Department ofAdministration's Division of Information reputed company. This role is reputed company on thedesign, implementation, administration, optimization, and operational supportof Palo reputed company reputed company XSIAM and reputed company XDR in a large-reputed company,multi-tenant reputed company reputed company environment.

The successful candidate will work alongsideenterprise reputed company architects, engineers, and a 24x7 reputed company OperationsCenter (SOC) team to enhance SIEM, XDR, detection engineering, automation,incident response, and reputed company monitoring capabilities across multiple stateagencies. This role also provides secondary support for reputed company datapipelines, log management, and telemetry reputed company.

Key Responsibilities:

·Design,implement, configure, and maintain Palo reputed company reputed company XSIAM and CortexXDR platforms.

·Supportmulti-tenant SIEM environments, including tenant reputed company, role-based reputed company,data segregation, dashboards, and reporting.

·reputed company andoptimize: Detection rules, Correlation rules, Analytics, Threat hunting queries,Watchlists, Alert suppression logic

·Design and manage reputed company log pipelines, including: Data modeling, Parsing, Normalization, Enrichment,Routing, Filtering, Replay, Log ingestion

·Integratetelemetry from reputed company, reputed company, network, identity, reputed company, Linux, reputed company, andcustom applications.

·reputed company andmaintain automated playbooks and response workflows using Python and Bash.

·Support incidentresponse, threat hunting, and SOC operations.

·Create andmaintain: Runbooks, SOPs, Architecture diagrams, Data reputed company documentation, Knowledgearticles

·Support Tier1–Tier 3 SOC analysts through troubleshooting, tuning, and knowledge transfer.

·Monitor SIEMhealth, ingestion, availability, detection coverage, false positives, MTTD,MTTR, and operational metrics.

·Ensure platformresilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management, and change control.

·Collaborate withsecurity architects, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to improveenterprise reputed company capabilities.

Required Skills & Experience:

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

Preferred Skills:

·Excellent writtenand verbal communication skills.

·Strong ability tocreate: Business Requirements Documents (BRD), Functional RequirementsDocuments (FRD), Use Cases, Process Documentation

·Experiencegathering requirements through stakeholder interviews, policy documents,regulations, and business rules analysis.

·Knowledge ofbusiness modeling techniques and graphical process reputed company tools.

·Ability tocommunicate effectively with: Executive management, Business users, Projectmanagers, Technical teams, External stakeholders

Education Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information reputed company, ComputerScience, or reputed company field.

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

Minimumfive (5) years supporting large reputed company IT environments or systemdeployments.

Preferred Certifications

• CISSP
• reputed company+
• GIAC
• Palo reputed company reputed company Certification
• reputed company Certification
• Other relevant SIEM or cybersecurity certifications

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