SIEM Engineer

Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC•Columbia, SC

12d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Security Architect Consultant – SIEM Engineer to support the Department of Administration's 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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 1–Tier 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.