SIEM Systems Engineer - Assistant Vice President

Join MUFG as a SIEM and SOAR Engineer

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world's leading financial groups. Across the globe, we're 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Overview

MUFG is seeking a highly motivated SIEM and SOAR Engineer as part of the Engineering team to design and implement cutting-edge technology to improve security posture. This person will work with other engineering team members to drive the engineering standards and implementation across the global deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-scale SIEM architectures with a strong emphasis on Cribl Stream / Edge as the primary data pipeline feeding Splunk and other downstream consumers.
• Leverage industry trends and market research to adopt the best practices to enhance the SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Build and manage Security Data Lakes and Warehouses, with a strong preference for AWS-based solutions (e.g., S3, Snowflake, Databricks).
• Define SIEM and SOAR platform standards including data schema, modelling, normalization, monitoring and alerting.
• Develop scalable patterns for integrating on-prem, cloud, SaaS, container, and application data sources into Cribl and SIEM platforms
• Use Regex, Splunk SPL, Kusto Query Language (KQL) and scripting (Python, Ansible) to parse, normalize, enrich, and detect security events.
• Ability to conduct fraud analysis and threat detection.
• Create dashboards, metrics, trends, and executive-level reporting using SIEM & SOAR data.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the current baseline processes and configuration
• Produce engineering, integration and process related documentation.
• Manage vendor relationships to drive roadmap, solution design, implementation and troubleshooting.
• Work with key stakeholders of the services to ensure the expectations are meeting the requirements.
• Knowledge of various applications and systems that include Servers, security platforms, middleware, Clouds (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), Containers, etc. to come up with the right approach of SIEM integration.
• Ability to understand security risks and controls, to analyze various methods of controlling information security problems, determine the strengths and weaknesses of each method and implement the best cost-justified solution.
• Ability to provide technical directions to other peer staff members, and to train new staff on the security team.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in technology with emphasis on cyber security.
• At least 3+ years of experience in SIEM and SOAR products such as Splunk, Cribl (must-have), Elastic, Datadog, etc.
• At least 1+ years of experience in Data Lake and data warehouse using products such as AWS S3, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with scripting is highly preferred like Python, Ansible etc.
• Experience in creating trending, metrics, and management reports
• Working knowledge in RegEx, Splunk search language, etc. is required.
• Knowledge and experience operating in a hybrid-cloud environment.
• Knowledge of modern security principles and their practical applications.
• Knowledge and experience with programming language to automate tasks (e.g. Python or PowerShell).

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or relevant industry certifications. Equivalent work experience is equally preferable.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM)
• Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.

As per MUFG's work policy, must work onsite 4 days and 1 day remotely.

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $113k–$168k
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $113k–$150k

Depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any. The Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.