Jobs · Engineering · New Jersey

Senior Platform Operations Engineer

State Street · Princeton, NJ · Yesterday
Engineering$120k–$203k/yrFull-time

What You Will Be Responsible For

Lead the support, administration, reliability, and day-to-day operations of enterprise cybersecurity, SIEM, observability, log management, and data platforms.

Support the operational roadmap for cybersecurity platform capabilities, including SIEM operations, detection support, observability, log monitoring, data ingestion, and reporting across the organization.

Support platform modernization and operational improvement initiatives across cybersecurity platforms, SIEM technologies, observability solutions, log management capabilities, and security operations tooling.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship for global support teams responsible for enterprise cybersecurity platforms, SIEM technologies, observability solutions, log management platforms, data ingestion pipelines, and operational analytics capabilities, including tools such as Splunk, Enterprise Security, Elastic Search, Cribl, Databricks, and similar security operations platforms.

Manage and support enterprise SIEM and cybersecurity platform components, including search, indexing, clustering, data management, platform integrations, and operational support functions across tools such as Splunk, Elastic Search, and other SIEM technologies.

Administer and optimize SIEM and security operations capabilities to support security monitoring, threat detection, alert triage, notable event management, and incident investigation requirements across enterprise cybersecurity platforms.

Optimize platform operations by using monitoring alerts, performance trends, service metrics, and operational insights to improve reliability, reduce recurring issues, lower technical debt, and strengthen service resiliency.

Lead platform upgrades, migrations, modernization initiatives, and service improvement programs.

Support enterprise log pipeline and telemetry management platforms, including tools such as Cribl, by monitoring data flow, troubleshooting routing or filtering issues, validating service health, and coordinating issue resolution with application and infrastructure teams.

Support integration of security and operational telemetry into Databricks Data Lake environments for analytics, reporting, and long-term data retention.

Monitor ingestion health, data quality, storage utilization, platform performance, and service availability across SIEM, log management, telemetry pipeline, and data platform environments.

Partner with Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application, and Service Management teams to support production issues, troubleshoot platform events, coordinate change activities, and deliver stable operational outcomes.

What We Value

  • Strong experience administering and supporting enterprise SIEM, cybersecurity, observability, and log management platforms in large-scale enterprise environments, including tools such as Splunk, QRadar, Elastic Search, and other similar SIEM/security operations technologies.
  • Deep understanding of SIEM concepts, security monitoring operations, threat detection, incident response, notable events, correlation searches, data models, and risk-based alerting.
  • Experience with log management, observability, monitoring, operational analytics, and enterprise data onboarding frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with Cribl Stream and data pipeline management, including routing, filtering, transformation, and optimization of machine data.
  • Experience integrating log and security telemetry into Databricks Data Lake platforms for advanced analytics, reporting, and data science use cases.
  • Experience supporting cloud-based platforms, preferably AWS, along with strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting skills.
  • Experience using scripting, automation, and version control practices to streamline operational support tasks, improve monitoring, reduce manual effort, and enhance platform reliability.
  • Working knowledge of ServiceNow, Jira, and Confluence for incident, problem, change, service request, Agile delivery, and technical documentation processes.
  • Knowledge of ITIL processes, operational best practices, compliance requirements, and service management disciplines.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Strong ability to coordinate effectively with global teams across multiple time zones while managing multiple priorities.
  • Experience working in large enterprise environments supporting mission-critical platforms with high service availability and operational excellence expectations.

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