Cortex XSIAM SIEM Engineer (Remote)

Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC is actively seeking an experienced Security Architect Consultant - SIEM Engineer to join a remote, 12-month contract. This role focuses on implementing and operating Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR in a large-scale, multi-tenant environment while supporting a 24x7 SOC.

The candidate will integrate telemetry across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, and OS platforms, develop automation with Python/Bash, and collaborate with security teams to improve

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR architecture, implementation, administration, and operational support.
• Experience supporting enterprise SIEM platforms within large multi-tenant environments.
• Experience supporting 24x7 Security Operations Centers (SOC).
• Strong detection engineering including: correlation rules, threat hunting, analytics, dashboards, alert tuning, false-positive reduction.
• Hands-on Cribl administration including: data modeling, log pipeline design, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing, ingestion.
• Experience developing automation using: Python and Bash.
• Experience onboarding cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Windows, Linux, and custom application telemetry.
• Knowledge of enterprise security architecture, incident response, secure system design, networking, IAM, cybersecurity frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR platforms.
• Support multi-tenant SIEM environments, including tenant onboarding, role-based access, data segregation, dashboards, and reporting.
• Develop and optimize: Detection rules, Correlation rules, Analytics, Threat hunting queries, Watchlists, Alert suppression logic
• Design and manage Cribl log pipelines, including: Data modeling, Parsing, Normalization, Enrichment, Routing, Filtering, Replay, Log ingestion
• Integrate telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows, and custom applications.
• Develop and maintain automated playbooks and response workflows using Python and Bash.
• Support incident response, threat hunting, and SOC operations.
• Create and maintain: Runbooks, SOPs, Architecture diagrams, Data flow documentation, Knowledge articles
• Support Tier 1-Tier 3 SOC analysts through troubleshooting, tuning, and knowledge transfer.
• Monitor SIEM health, ingestion, availability, detection coverage, false positives, MTTD, MTTR, and operational metrics.
• Ensure platform resilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management, and change control.
• Collaborate with security architects, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to improve enterprise security capabilities.

Skills

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

Cortex XDR

SOC operations

Detection engineering

Correlation rules

Threat hunting

Analytics

Dashboards

Alert tuning

False positives

Cribl administration

Data modeling

Log pipelines

Parsing

Normalization

Enrichment

Routing

Ingestion

Python

Bash

Telemetry onboarding

Enterprise security

Incident response

Secure system design

Networking

IAM

Cybersecurity frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Science, or related field

Eight years of relevant experience may be substituted for the degree requirement

Minimum five years supporting large enterprise IT environments or system deployments

Tools

Cribl

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

Cortex XDR

Job description

Sunshine Enterprise USA LLC is actively seeking an experienced Security Architect Consultant - SIEM Engineer to join a remote, 12-month contract. This role focuses on implementing and operating Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR in a large-scale, multi-tenant environment while supporting a 24x7 SOC.

The candidate will integrate telemetry across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, and OS platforms, develop automation with Python/Bash, and collaborate with security teams to improve