Senior Engineer – SIEM Platform Engineering & Operations
Bank of America · Chicago, IL · 3 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
Core Responsibilities
- Engineer, monitor, and maintain the operational health and resiliency of SIEM platforms including Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel.
- Implement SIEM platform resiliency controls including cluster monitoring, ingestion latency tracking, and workload distribution optimizations.
- Maintain and troubleshoot the data ingestion pipeline including Kafka clusters, Cribl pipelines, Splunk Forwarders, and Sentinel connectors.
- Develop dashboards for pipeline throughput, message lag, schema drift, and end-to-end data quality validation.
- Manage and enforce data SLIs/SLOs across freshness, completeness, correctness, and availability.
- Ensure proper CIM/OCSF/CEF normalization and enrichment for all security-relevant data sources.
- Oversee the Anvilogic content management platform including rule execution health, version control, and analytics dependency monitoring.
- Develop unified observability dashboards covering SIEM platform state, ingestion health, detection pipeline execution, and analytic reliability.
- Serve as escalation point for SIEM data outages, ingestion failures, analytic misfires, and platform degradations.
- Collaborate with operational and engineering teams to design and enhance security detections, analytics, and proactive defenses.
- Write, optimize, and maintain SPL, KQL, and other query languages to support analytics, threat detection, and investigations.
- Support Model Risk Management (MRM) efforts to describe AI or ML Models in use by any of our SIEM Technologies.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years experience in Security Operations, SIEM Engineering, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or related enterprise disciplines.
- Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel in large-scale environments.
- Experience with Kafka, Cribl, Databricks, Hadoop, Python, SQL, Pandas, Spark, or similar data platforms.
- Experience mapping log sources into structured models such as CIM, OCSF, CEF.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex SIEM ingestion, data quality, and infrastructure performance issues.
- Experience with EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and other enterprise-scale cybersecurity tools.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, drive consensus, and deliver results across distributed teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with offensive security tooling and integrating SIEM/SOAR/TIP platforms.
- Knowledge of data science processes and statistical methods for detection enhancement.
- Experience threat hunting or performing detection engineering in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or M365.
- Experience maintaining Splunk KV stores, apps, and performing regular upgrades.
- Experience building SRE-style observability and reliability patterns (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) for cybersecurity platforms.
- Awareness of AI enabled Security Operations technologies.