# Security Architect - Consultant

SCOPE: THIS POSITION WILL SERVE AS A SIEM ENGINEER WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION’S DIVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL SHOW EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE SUCCESSFULLY DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, MAINTAINING AND OPTIMIZING PALO ALTO CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR IN LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-TENANT SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS. THIS CONTRACTOR WILL WORK WITH A LARGE ENTERPRISE SECURITY TEAM AND A 24X7 SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC), ASSISTING FULL-TIME SECURITY ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND ANALYSTS WITH THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF SIEM, XDR, DETECTION AND RESPONSE CAPABILITIES SUPPORTING MULTIPLE STATE AGENCIES. SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: THIS CONTRACTOR WILL BE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR ENGINEERING, ADMINISTRATION, DETECTION CONTENT, AUTOMATION AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WHILE ALSO PROVIDING IMPORTANT SECONDARY SUPPORT FOR CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT AND INGESTION. THE ROLE REQUIRES HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE SUPPORTING BOTH SECURITY ENGINEERING AND SOC OPERATIONS, INCLUDING MULTI-TENANT ONBOARDING, TENANT-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATIONS, ACCESS CONTROLS, DATA SEPARATION, INTEGRATION

- **Id**: 3759791
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/novalink-solutions-security-architect-consultant>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Columbia, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T18:12:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T13:12:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7776
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Incident Response

## Company

- **Id**: 4449854
- **Name**: Novalink Solutions
- **Domain**: novalink-solutions.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/novalink-solutions-llc>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Zoho Recruit

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Cortex** — Optional: no
- **Cortex XDR** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T18:12:49Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 13 · green card filings: 6; Filings 12m: 13

## Liveness

- **Score**: 26
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.451
- **P room**: 0.578
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:4, agency, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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