Network Security Engineer

InfoStride; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

InfoStride is seeking a contractor in the Town of Texas, Wisconsin, to optimize the agency's CrowdStrike SIEM and related services. The role involves enhancing threat detection, improving monitoring capabilities, and integrating valuable log sources into the SIEM. Responsibilities include assessing current telemetry, developing dashboards, and providing documentation. Experience with CrowdStrike SIEM and strong communication skills are essential. This opportunity is vital to improve security operations and increase visibility into endpoint risk.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated skill with documentation, reporting, and knowledge transfer.
• Hands-on experience with CrowdStrike SIEM and dashboard development.
• Experience in SIEM detection engineering and log source integration.

Responsibilities

• Assess current CrowdStrike SIEM configuration, telemetry coverage, and log ingestion.
• Enable and tune additional CrowdStrike telemetry for visibility.
• Develop and refine security dashboards aligned to SOC and executive use cases.
• Provide weekly status updates and monthly executive level progress summaries.

Skills

Documentation and reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

SIEM detection engineering

Alert optimization

Log source integration

Data normalization

CrowdStrike SIEM

Dashboard development

Job description

Overview

This project will optimize the agency’s CrowdStrike SIEM and related CrowdStrike services to improve threat detection, monitoring, and response capabilities. The contractor will expand and tune telemetry, integrate additional high value log sources, enhance security dashboards, and support the rollout of additional CrowdStrike services. The effort will increase visibility into endpoint and security risk, improve signal quality and correlation, and provide security leadership with clear insight into security operations effectiveness and overall risk posture.

Expected Outcomes

• Expanded and optimized CrowdStrike SIEM telemetry coverage
• Integration of additional high value log sources
• Improved dashboards for operational and executive visibility
• Enhanced detection fidelity and monitoring effectiveness
• Clearer insight for leadership into endpoint risk and security operations performance

Duties to Be Performed

• Assess current CrowdStrike SIEM configuration, telemetry coverage, and log ingestion
• Enable and tune additional CrowdStrike telemetry to improve visibility and signal quality
• Identify and integrate new high value log sources into CrowdStrike SIEM
• Develop and refine security dashboards aligned to SOC and executive use cases
• Assist with technical enablement and rollout of additional CrowdStrike services
• Validate data quality, parsing, and correlation within the SIEM
• Coordinate with Security Operations, IT Operations, and system owners
• Identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in monitoring and detection
• Provide weekly status updates and monthly executive level progress summaries
• Deliver supporting documentation and recommendations to sustain improvements
• Summary of work performed and capabilities delivered
• Documentation supporting all telemetry enablement, log integrations, and dashboard implementations
• Measurable improvements in monitoring, detection, or visibility
• Recommendations for future enhancements or next-phase efforts

Skills

• Demonstrated skill with documentation, reporting, and knowledge transfer
• Experience with Stakeholder Engagement, and Executive Communication
• Experience in SIEM Detection Engineering and Alert Optimization
• Experience in Log Source Integration and Data Normalization
• Hands-On Experience with CrowdStrike SIEM and Dashboard Development
• Hands-On Experience with SIEM and Dashboard Development