Next-Gen SIEM Analyst

Next-Gen SIEM Analyst

Location: Remote (Austin, Texas) Duration: Long Term

Must have education department experience from any state client experience.

Job Description

This project will optimize the agency's CrowdStrike SIEM and related CrowdStrike services to improve threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities. The contractor will expand and tune telemetry, integrate additional high-value log sources, enhance security dashboards, and support the rollout of additional CrowdStrike services. The effort will increase visibility into endpoint and security risk, improve signal quality and correlation, and provide security leadership with clear insight into security operations effectiveness and overall risk posture. Expected outcomes include: expanded and optimized CrowdStrike SIEM telemetry coverage, integration of additional high-value log sources, improved dashboards for operational and executive visibility, enhanced detection fidelity and monitoring effectiveness, and clearer insight for leadership into endpoint risk and security operations performance.

Duties to be performed include: assessing current CrowdStrike SIEM configuration, telemetry coverage, and log ingestion; enabling and tuning additional CrowdStrike telemetry to improve visibility and signal quality; identifying and integrating new high-value log sources into CrowdStrike SIEM; developing and refining security dashboards aligned to SOC and executive use cases; assisting with technical enablement and rollout of additional CrowdStrike services; validating data quality, parsing, and correlation within the SIEM; coordinating with Security Operations, IT Operations, and system owners; identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in monitoring and detection; providing weekly status updates and monthly executive-level progress summaries; and delivering supporting documentation and recommendations to sustain improvements.

Deliverables include: summary of work performed and capabilities delivered, documentation supporting all telemetry enablement, log integrations, and dashboard implementations, measurable improvements in monitoring, detection, or visibility, and recommendations for future enhancements or next-phase efforts.

Candidate Skills and Qualifications

Minimum requirements: candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years - Required/Preferred - Experience

8 - Required - Demonstrated skill with documentation, reporting, and knowledge transfer

8 - Required - Experience with Stakeholder Engagement, and Executive Communication

8 - Required - Experience in SIEM Detection Engineering and Alert Optimization

8 - Required - Experience in Log Source Integration and Data Normalization

3 - Required - Hands-On Experience with CrowdStrike SIEM and Dashboard Development

5 - Preferred - Hands-On Experience with SIEM and Dashboard Development