SIEM Engineer / Security Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

CyberLinx Solutions, LLC is seeking a SIEM Engineer / Security Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) infrastructure and supporting security platforms. This role is responsible for building scalable log ingestion pipelines, ensuring high-quality data normalization, and developing detection capabilities that enable effective threat monitoring and response.

Key Responsibilities

SIEM Engineering & Platform Management

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic).
• Manage SIEM architecture, including data pipelines, storage, and system integrations.
• Ensure platform availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Log Integration & Data Pipeline Management
• Integrate and onboard log sources including firewalls, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud platforms, and identity systems.
• Build and maintain log ingestion pipelines to support real-time and batch data processing.
• Ensure proper log normalization, parsing, and enrichment for accurate analysis.

Detection Engineering

• Develop and maintain correlation rules, detection logic, and alerting mechanisms.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts to improve detection use cases and reduce false positives.
• Align detection logic with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Monitor and optimize SIEM system performance, including query efficiency and ingestion rates.
• Manage storage capacity and data lifecycle, including retention policies and archival strategies.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.