What are the responsibilities and job description for the SIEM Specialist position at Dunhill Professional Search & Government Solutions?
As the SIEM Specialist you will be responsible for designing & setting up the ingestion of various customer data flows to include pre-processing data into a useable format, ensuring proper parsing and indexing
Collaborate with cross-functional teams and responsible for designing & integrating Elastic with a wide variety of data sources and developing associated knowledge objects such as queries, dashboards, reports, alerts for monitoring and analytics
Perform data transformation using Elastic query language
Track the health of the Elastic environment and optimize its performance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to security, performance, data indexing, and searches
Perform watch-officer monitoring duties, including:
- monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats and events using Elastic /SIEM Platform
- Reviewing correlated alerts and logs for compromise scenarios
- Performing triage of security alerts to prioritize response
- Identifying false positives
- Investigating security incidents and determining root cause
- Collecting and preserving logs for analysis
- Escalating confirmed incidents to leadership or SOC teams
- Coordinating with IT or DevOps for containment and remediation
- Creating after-action reports (AAR) post-incident
In addition, the role may include assistance with monitoring Vulnerability Management tools, such as ACAS and ePO
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other Engineering or Technical discipline and at least 3 years of working knowledge and hands-on equivalent relevant experience.
- Security certification required
- Candidate must have active secret security clearance.
- Position requires candidate to work on-site in Alexandria VA 2-3 days/week
- US Citizenship
- Secret Clearance
Other Job Specific Skills
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience with the following:
- Elastic/Splunk query languages
- Monitoring SIEM dashboards and real-time alerts
- Fine-tuning SIEM rules to reduce noice
- NIST 500-53 & DevSecOps frameworks