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By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.\nGeneral Description\nWe are looking for a skilled Security Operations Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operational support of security operations technologies and workflows. This role will engage in the development of security telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation while providing “Wow Them” service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.\nThe Security Operations Engineer must demonstrate strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, and client communication skills. The engineer must lead through influence and apply sound business and financial awareness when making technical decisions involving project scope, level of effort, platform performance, data volume, and client value.\nAbout the North Central region SecOps Practice\nThe Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and operate the technologies and processes used to detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. We deliver consulting and engineering services across SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, detection engineering, observability, and SOC transformation.\nOur team of engineers, consultants, architects, and platform specialists focuses on security data onboarding, detection coverage, workflow automation, platform optimization, and operational maturity. We partner with clients, account executives, project managers, technology providers, and internal delivery teams to implement practical and supportable security capabilities.\nKey areas of focus include:\nCreating repeatable and measurable Security Operations services.\nImproving telemetry quality, detection coverage, and investigation efficiency.\nEvaluating and adopting emerging security technologies responsibly.\nRoles and Responsibilities:\nConfigure and support the ingestion of security telemetry into SIEM platforms using agents, APIs, syslog, and native integrations.\nImplement parsing, field extraction, enrichment, and normalization logic using formats such as regex, JSON, key-value data, CEF, and Windows Event Logs.\nDevelop, test, map, and tune SIEM detection rules while helping reduce false positives and identify detection coverage gaps.\nSupport the configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of SIEM and SOAR platforms, integrations, and workflows.\nParticipate in client discovery sessions and assist with documenting current-state architectures, data flows, SOC processes, and technical findings.\nContribute to reusable implementation patterns, work instructions, detection content, technical documentation, and service-delivery standards.\nMaintain awareness of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, observability, and emerging AI-enabled Security Operations technologies.\nExecute assigned technical work across multiple client environments while managing priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.\nCommunicate technical issues, risks, progress, and scope considerations to technical leads, project managers, and client stakeholders.\nSupport regional delivery priorities and collaborate with other engineers when client demand requires cross-platform or cross-practice assistance.\nRequired Experience and Education:\nTwo to five years of experience in security operations, SIEM engineering, detection engineering, or a related field.\nHands-on experience implementing or supporting at least one enterprise SIEM platform.\nExperience working with log data, security telemetry, parsing, normalization, and data-source onboarding.\nExposure to detection engineering, SOC investigation workflows, APIs, integrations, and security automation.\nBasic scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, or a similar language.\nFamiliarity with SIEM query languages such as SPL, KQL, Lucene, or SQL-like languages.\nBachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent professional and military experience.\nEmbraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.\nPreferred Experience and Education \nSIEM vendor certification from Splunk, Google, Microsoft, Elastic, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Sumo Logic, or Datadog.\nSOAR or automation certification from Splunk SOAR, XSOAR, Fusion, SentinelOne Hyper Automation, Torq, or Tines.\nExperience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK.\nExperience supporting cloud, identity, endpoint, network, or application telemetry.\nExperience with observability or security data pipeline platforms.\nClient-facing consulting or professional service experience.\nExperience producing implementation documentation, runbooks, data dictionaries, or technical assessment deliverables.\nTravel Requirements:\nUp to 10% travel \nPhysical Requirements:\nSedentary work\nSubstantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day\nRequired to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day\nNote: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.\nWe use Greenhouse Software as our applicant tracking system and Zoom Scheduler for HR screen request scheduling. At times, your email may block our communication with you. Please be sure to check your SPAM folder so that you don't miss updates on your application.\n\nWhy GuidePoint?\n GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,300 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.\nFirmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. 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