SIEM Engineer

Job Description:

The Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) organization is seeking a Splunk SIEM Specialist Engineer to join our growing SIEM & Security Analytics team. This candidate will join a team in managing a large hybrid enterprise/cloud deployment of Splunk and Enterprise Security and partnering with our SOC, CIRT, Threat Detection, and Cyber Intel functions to deliver capabilities to improve their ability to defend Thomson Reuters from cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and stability of Splunk, and Enterprise Security SIEM platform
• Create and optimize Splunk queries, dashboards and reports to support business and operational needs.
• Monitor Splunk environment health and platform troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Splunk optimization by troubleshooting ingestion delays, parsing errors, and search performance issues
• Managing Splunk infrastructure in AWS cloud, cloud operations experience is preferred
• Onboard new application and platform logs via syslog, endpoint agents, APIs, Cribl, HEC, DB Connect etc.
• Experience in Managing Cribl Stream Deployments, good hands On is expected in managing Cribl Pipelines
• Collaborate with our SOC, CIRT, Threat Detection, and Cyber Intel teams on operationalizing use cases within Splunk ES to detect threats
• Create and maintain documentation to support SIEM platform
• Embedding automation into the deployment and management of the Splunk and Cribl infrastructure and application
• Implementation of industry best practices for managing an enterprise scale service and continuously seeking iterative improvements
• Facilitate high availability and disaster recovery capabilities
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-changing, and innovative environment
• An operating style that is collaborative, energetic, and results-oriented
• Demonstrates the ability to employ judgment and experience to make rapid, complex decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Computer Applications
• 5+ years of Proven experience of working with large hybrid deployments of Splunk, Splunk Cloud, Cribl
• Strong knowledge of Splunk and Cribl architecture and components
• Proficiency in advanced SPL and Dashboard creation
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security is a must
• Experience integrating various data sources specially cloud
• Experience in AWS or Azure or GCP cloud operations is preferred
• Solid understanding of network transport protocols and services (TCP/IP, syslog, DNS, ODBC, SFTP, SSH, PKI, etc.)
• General scripting proficiency (i.e. BASH, Python, regular expressions, powershell etc.)
• Experience researching, analyzing, and resolving complex problems with minimal supervision
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience managing multiple projects parallelly and deadlines
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Splunk Certifications in any of the following: Splunk Certified Admin, Splunk Cloud Admin, Splunk Certified Architect, or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin preferred
• Cribl User or Admin certification is preferred
• Experience deploying, managing, and scaling cloud infrastructure in AWS or Azure
• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Jenkins, Code Pipeline, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible etc.
• General scripting proficiency (i.e. BASH, Python, regular expressions, PowerShell etc.)
• Linux, Networking, or Security certifications a plus
• Experience working in agile project methodology
• Experience using Claude/ChatGPT/CoPilot AI tools to automate BAU work and troubleshooting.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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