Senior SIEM/SOC Security Engineer — Onsite Manila

Gratitude Philippines; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Gratitude Philippines seeks an experienced Security Engineer (SIEM/SOC) to design, deploy, and optimize enterprise SIEM and SOAR solutions in Manila. You will integrate diverse data sources, develop detection logic, and automate responses while collaborating with SOC teams to improve detection and incident handling.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cybersecurity with strong SIEM engineering background and SOC exposure, and is prepared to work onsite in Manila with a shifting schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience.
• Strong experience in SIEM engineering within enterprise environments.
• Previous experience working in a SOC is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and optimize enterprise SIEM platforms.
• Build and maintain correlation rules, detection logic, dashboards, alerts, and security reports.
• Integrate log sources from endpoints, servers, network devices, cloud platforms, applications, and security appliances.
• Improve data ingestion, parsing, normalization, and enrichment for higher-quality detections and reduced false positives.
• Continuously enhance detection coverage based on emerging threats and attack techniques.
• Implement and administer enterprise SOAR platforms.
• Develop automated incident response playbooks and workflows.
• Automate alert triage, enrichment, threat intelligence correlation, and remediation tasks.
• Integrate SIEM, ticketing systems, EDR/XDR, threat intelligence feeds, and other security technologies.
• Collaborate with SOC teams to improve response efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Support SOC during incident investigations.
• Develop engineering solutions addressing recurring threats and gaps.
• Perform root cause analysis and recommend long-term security improvements.
• Maintain documentation, SOPs, and knowledge articles.
• Provide technical guidance to SOC analysts and IT teams.
• Support security control implementation aligned with best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure compliance with security requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvements across cybersecurity operations.

Skills

SIEM engineering

SOC

Threat hunting

Security automation

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS

Tools

Splunk ES

Microsoft Sentinel

IBM QRadar

ArcSight

Google SecOps

Elastic SIEM

Cortex XSOAR

Splunk SOAR

IBM Resilient

Job description

Gratitude Philippines seeks an experienced Security Engineer (SIEM/SOC) to design, deploy, and optimize enterprise SIEM and SOAR solutions in Manila. You will integrate diverse data sources, develop detection logic, and automate responses while collaborating with SOC teams to improve detection and incident handling.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cybersecurity with strong SIEM engineering background and SOC exposure, and is prepared to work onsite in Manila with a shifting schedule.