SIEM Engineer

Position Description: 

Our client in the financial services domain is seeking a candidate to help grow and improve the Cyber Development and Testing team. The team handles the end-to-end process of the development of new security use cases. This function touches many different teams and requires both a wide and deep understanding of several different information security concepts and how they function and apply to a corporate enterprise environment. The candidate should have an established background in information security and should have experience with both the development and testing of security cases that serves a large organization.

The candidate will be assisting the US Cyber Threat Detection Lead in the organization’s migration to cloud. This entails the testing of existing use cases, testing of new use cases, development of new use cases in the new Cloud SIEM tenant, facilitating requests between entities, and generally being available to assist with any activities related to Threat Detection.

Required Skills : 
3-4 years of experience

Security log analysis

Creating efficient and performant correlation search queries which will become security use cases, reports, or dashboards

Designing, implementing, and executing testing procedures for new and existing security alerts

Effective communication as to the status of weekly, monthly, and quarterly project deadlines and deliverables

Ideal candidate will have: 

Splunk (developer-level)

AWS (intermediate). Familiarity with AWS CloudTrail and GuardDuty is a huge plus

JIRA (or any agile based platform)