Distinguished, Siem Engineer

Walmart Walmart · Retail · HERNDON, VA TECH FACILITY VA Herndon

Seeking a Distinguished, Senior-Level SIEM Engineer to design, build, and evolve enterprise-scale SIEM platforms for a large, complex environment. Responsibilities include enabling alerting capabilities, monitoring logging metrics, identifying gaps in logging processes, providing operational support for SIEM and SOAR platforms, and ensuring data protection, storage, search availability, and compliance with various standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, and develop processes that ensure data protection, storage, search availability, and compliance with standards such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, and GLBA.
  2. Provide operational support and expertise for the critical infrastructure that underpins our SIEM and SOAR platforms, ensuring their reliability, scalability, and effectiveness in enabling security operations.
  3. Leverage advanced automation pipeline tools to streamline data ingestion, processing, and analysis within the SIEM architecture.
  4. Enable alerting capabilities by closely monitoring logging metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), such as availability, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and key Service Level Indicators (SLIs), including request latency and error rates.
  5. Identify gaps in logging processes and log event coverage and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure compliance. This includes improving logging integrity to detect and respond effectively to malicious activities across our environments.

Skills

Required

  • SIEM Engineering
  • SIEM platforms
  • SOAR platforms
  • data protection
  • logging metrics
  • automation pipeline tools
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 6 years’ experience in SIEM Engineering or related area at a technology, Retail, or data-driven company.
  • 8 years’ experience in SIEM Engineering or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.

Nice to have

  • Security+
  • GISF
  • GSEC
  • CISSP
  • CCSP
  • GCDA
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related area and 4 years’ experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards
  • assistive technologies
  • digital accessibility

What the JD emphasized

  • SOX
  • HIPAA
  • PCI
  • GDPR
  • GLBA