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Primary responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the architecture, deployment, configuration, and management of separate Splunk instances for our clients as well as the responsibility of security use-case development and alert configuration.\nSecurity Engineers work closely with our clients as well as our SOC analysts to ensure systems and alerts are properly configured and understood appropriately for accurate alert escalation. Security Engineers must demonstrate intuitive problem-solving skills, have proficient information security knowledge, as well as a strong broad technical background.\nResponsibilities\nArchitecting, administrating, and maintaining Splunk instances for clients as well as internal instances.\nEvaluating applications within a client environment and prioritizing critical data sources based on security value and license impact.\nProvide guidance on types of logs/events to collect from devices that will be most useful for security purposes. \nDetermining best method for log collection and assisting clients with forwarding security logs to specified SIEM platform.\nParticipate in weekly project meetings, both internal and client facing\nWork closely with the Project Coordinator to ensure projects stay on track and critical tasks are completed in a timely manner.\nParticipate in weekly rotating on-call schedule.\nOther duties, as assigned by direct manager.\nRequirements\nHands on experience in managing, configuring, and deploying Splunk in a professional environment.\nStrong and demonstrable knowledge in various areas of information security and their best practices. 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We bring the attacker's mindset to defense, helping clients detect threats earlier, respond faster, and continuously improve their security posture.\nFor more information, visit ourwebsite, check out ourblog, or follow us on LinkedIn.\nBinary Defense offers competitive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and dependents, a 401k match which vests every payroll, a flexible and remote friendly work environment, as well as training opportunities to expand your skill set (to name a few!). 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