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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 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 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 Northeast region SecOps practice\nThe Northeast region 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: \nSIEM Engineering\nArchitect, deploy, and maintain the SIEM platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, Google SecOps), including data ingestion, parsing, normalization, and retention.\nOnboard and tune log sources across cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), identity (Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory), endpoint (EDR), network, email security, SaaS, and line-of-business applications.\nDevelop, test, and tune detection rules, correlation searches, and analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; reduce false positives and close detection gaps.\nBuild dashboards, reports, and metrics for SOC operations, leadership, and audit/compliance needs.\nMonitor SIEM health, data quality, ingestion costs, and performance; recommend optimizations.\nSOAR Engineering and Automation\nDesign, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Sentinel automation/Logic Apps, Tines, Torq) for triage, enrichment, containment, and case management.\nIntegrate security and IT tools via APIs, including EDR, identity, ticketing (ServiceNow/Jira), threat intelligence platforms, email gateways, and vulnerability scanners.\nAutomate high-volume use cases such as phishing response, account compromise, malware triage, and user-behavior alerts.\nEstablish version control, testing, and change-management practices for detections and playbooks (detection-as-code).\nMeasure and report automation impact (e.g., mean time to detect/respond, analyst hours saved).\nCollaboration and Governance\nPartner with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and threat intelligence to turn lessons learned into new detections and automations.\nWork with IT, cloud, and application teams to ensure appropriate logging and onboarding standards.\nSupport client-facing security questionnaires, audits, and assessments (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, client-specific requirements) with evidence and documentation.\nMaintain clear documentation: runbooks, data source inventories, detection catalogs, and architecture diagrams.\nParticipate in on-call or after-hours support rotation for critical platform issues and major incidents, as needed.\nRequired Experience and Education: \n3-5 years of architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting experience with one or more SIEM/SOAR solutions\nProficiency developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies\nExpertise developing security-focused content for one more SIEM platforms (Splunk ES, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Elastic Security, Palo Alto XSIAM, Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, Sentinel One AI SIEM), including creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards\nExpertise with SOAR platforms (Splunk SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, Tines, Torq)\nFamiliarity with key security events on common IT platforms\nDeep proficiency in client and server operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux\nGeneral networking and security troubleshooting (firewalls, routing, NAT, etc.)\nScripting and development skills (BASH, Perl, Python or Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions\nAbility to autonomously prioritize and successfully deliver across a portfolio of projects \nEmbraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes\nPreferred Experience and Education:\nExperience with platforms such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform and SaltStack\nExperience with other Information Security solutions including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, ZScaler, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Microsoft Defender products, Carbon Black, Splunk, and/or Cisco\nExperience authoring security runbooks, policy, and best practice documentation\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\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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