CCI- Computer Consultants International, Inc. is hiring for a Security Architect/SIEM Engineer position. The role involves designing and optimizing SIEM and XDR solutions within a large security team, supporting various state agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Show extensive experience successfully designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing PALO alto cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR in large-scale, multi-tenant security environments
- Work with a large enterprise security team and a 24x7 security operations center (SOC), assisting full-time security architects, engineers, and analysts with the design, implementation, integration, and continuous improvement of SIEM, XDR, detection and response capabilities supporting multiple state agencies
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in an Information Technology or Information Security related field (8+ years of relevant work experience may be substituted in lieu of education)
- 5+ years of experience support large IT environments and/or system deployments
- Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Cortex, XSIAM, and Cortex XDR design, implementation, administration and operational support
- Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center operations
- Experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic
- Experience creating and managing complex playbooks
- CRIBL Data Modeling, log pipeline design, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing and ingestion
- Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash
- Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources
- Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks
- CISSP, Security+ or GIAC certification
- Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform certification
- Hands-on experience operating Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR in a large, multi-tenant environment
- Hands-on Cribl administration, data modeling and log pipeline optimization experience
- Experience supporting Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts, threat hunting, incident response and 24x7 operational handoffs
- Familiarity with industry-standard security and compliance frameworks and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation