This position is required to be on-site at our Bangalore office 3 day's per week
This team provides 24/7 support. This role requires shift flexibility, including the ability to rotate between days, mid's, and nights
At Optiv, we’re on a mission to help our clients make their businesses more secure. We’re one of the fastest growing companies in a truly essential industry.
In your role at Optiv, you’ll be inspired by a team of the brightest business and technical minds in cyber security. We are passionate champions for our clients and know from experience that the best solutions for our clients’ needs come from working hard together. As part of our team, your voice matters, and you will do important work that has impact, on people, businesses and nations. Our industry and our company move fast, and you can be sure that you will always have room to learn and grow. We’re proud of our team and the important work we do to build confidence for a more connected world.
Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. A Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team. In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.
How you’ll make an impact
- Help lead the Splunk team by prioritizing clients work requests, projects, and service tasks.
- Work closely with Management, Service Delivery and Principal Engineers in defining processes and procedures for internal projects.
- Analyzes and identifies areas of improvement with existing processes, procedures, and documentation.
- Assist in team development by defining strategies and responsibilities to be successful and grow.
- Develop internal training methods to support Managed Services and their clients.
- Act as a point of escalation for Junior SIEM Engineers, as well as provide them with guidance and mentorship.
- Assist with client activation and onboarding.
- Explain and demonstrate how to use SIEM products to both technical and relatively non-technical personnel.
- Provide remote consulting services via interactive client sessions to assist with implementation of multiple product vendors and technologies.
- Implement and configure SIEM software and appliance-based products in Enterprise and Government environments.
- Develop, deploy, and tune SIEM content and reporting.
- Interacting appropriately and professionally with both customers and partners, when required.
- Perform knowledge transfers and train clients regarding security and system configuration
- The Senior SIEM Engineer will have no direct reports.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years professional experience managing and maintaining SIEM systems.
- 2-3 years professional experience working with networks and network architecture.
- 1+ year professional experience writing SIEM content specifically for Splunk.
- Ability to deal confidently with complex technical problems.
- Expert-level knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security
- Experience with building intricate searches from disparate data sources and joining them together.
- Extensive experience using the Enterprise Security Asset & Identity and Threat Intelligence Framework within Splunk Enterprise Security
- Proficient with managing Unix and Linux operating systems
- Strong Experience with writing complex regular expression (Regex) to extract fields for data that is structured and unstructured.
- Experience with extracting fields, multi-value fields, tags, field aliases, etc.
- Well-versed in building threat detections (correlation rules) using security logs to detect malicious activity with high fidelity.
- In-depth knowledge of security logging for Linux, Windows, major EDRs, Firewalls, & Active Directory
- Experience with installing and configuring Splunk CORE and Splunk Enterprise Security
- The ability to aggregate and analyze logs from various deployed security devices.
- Experience with configuring and/or working with Splunk Search Head and/or Indexer Clusters.
- Experience with creating custom applications, dashboards, reports, and alerts (not including the default ones that come with Splunk).
- Shift flexibility, including the ability to provide on call support when needed.
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What you can expect from Optiv
- A company committed to our inclusive value through our Employee Resource Groups
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
- Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
EEO Statement
Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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