Remote SIEM Engineer (Cortex XSIAM)

Piper Companies is seeking a Remote SIEM Engineer (Cortex XSIAM) to join a premier cyber security organization. The SIEM Engineer will work with clients to determine a suitable detection strategy, helping to protect customers from threats, by designing and implementing correlation rules.

Responsibilities of the SIEM Engineer include:

• 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 Subject Matter Expert (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%)

Qualifications for the SIEM Engineer include:

• 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)
• 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
• Experience with Security Operation Centers tooling and processes

Compensation for the SIEM Engineer includes:

• Salary: $140,000 - $160,000 -- $75/hr - $80/hr
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave as required by law, and Holidays

This job opens for applications on 1/09/2025. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.