Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM Engineer (Security) - Fully REMOTE - Must have CRIBL Data Modleing experience

RICEFW Technologies Inc; Columbia (SC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

On-call rotation

Job summary

RICEFW Technologies Inc. is seeking a remote SIEM/XDR engineer to join a 24x7 SOC supporting multiple state agencies. The role is 100% remote with a monthly on-call rotation; after-hours maintenance may be required as needed.

You will deploy and optimize Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM/XDR, Cribl data pipelines, and enable multi-tenant onboarding, detection, and automation. The position supports Tier 1–3 analysts across cloud, endpoint, network, identity, and SaaS telemetry.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for 24x7 SOC operations.
• Experience with Cribl data pipelines and Cortex XSIAM/XDR.
• Automation and orchestration using Python and Bash.
• Onboarding telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS and custom apps.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, deploy and support SIEM/XDR architectures for a 24x7 SOC environment.
• Develop, test and maintain automated playbooks and runbooks for incident response.
• Monitor ingestion health, platform availability and alerting metrics.
• Support Tier 1–3 SOC analysts with troubleshooting and escalation.
• Collaborate with security architects, engineers and stakeholders to align solutions with business goals.

Skills

SIEM engineering

XSIAM/XDR

Cribl data pipelines

Python scripting

Telemetry onboarding

Multi-tenant SOC support

Education

Information Technology or Information Security field

Tools

Palo Alto Cortex

Cribl

Job description

Candidate Location: THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A MONTHLY ON-CALL ROTATION SUPPORTING THE 24X7 SOC. AFTER-HOURS MAINTENANCE, INCIDENT ESCALATION SUPPORT AND OPERATIONAL HANDOFFS MAY BE REQUIRED AS NEEDED. Open to Nationwide resources.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A MONTHLY ON-CALL ROTATION SUPPORTING A 24X7 SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER SERVING MULTIPLE STATE AGENCIES. OTHER AFTER-HOURS WORK MAY BE REQUIRED AS NEEDED.

• PRIMARILY Assist in the planning, design, deployment, administration and operational support of enterprise SIEM and XDR capabilities, including:

PALO ALTO CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR PLATFORM ENGINEERING, CONFIGURATION, OPTIMIZATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING

MULTI-TENANT AGENCY ONBOARDING, TENANT-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION, ROLE-BASED ACCESS, DATA SEGREGATION, DASHBOARDS AND REPORTING

DETECTION ENGINEERING, CORRELATION RULES, ANALYTICS, THREAT-HUNTING QUERIES, WATCHLISTS, SUPPRESSION LOGIC AND FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION

• SECONDARILY Assist in the planning, design, deployment and operational support of log management and security data pipelines, including:

CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, ROUTING, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT, FILTERING, REPLAY AND INGESTION

ONBOARDING AND HEALTH MONITORING OF CLOUD, ENDPOINT, NETWORK, IDENTITY, SAAS AND CUSTOM APPLICATION TELEMETRY

LOG VOLUME, RETENTION, PERFORMANCE AND COST OPTIMIZATION WHILE MAINTAINING SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

INTEGRATIONS WITH TICKETING, CASE MANAGEMENT, NOTIFICATION, IDENTITY, THREAT INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AS NEEDED

• Develop, test, deploy and maintain automated response workflows and playbooks for enrichment, triage, containment, escalation, notifications, case management and incident response.
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, escalation matrices, troubleshooting guides, architecture diagrams, data-flow documentation, use-case catalogs and analyst knowledge articles.
• Support Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts and incident responders through platform troubleshooting, detection tuning, threat hunting, technical escalation, knowledge transfer and shift handoffs.
• Monitor and report on ingestion health, platform availability, alert volumes, detection coverage, false positives, service levels, mean time to detect, mean time to respond and tenant-specific operational metrics.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management and controlled change processes for SIEM, XDR and supporting log pipeline services.
• Collaborate with security architects, engineers, analysts and agency stakeholders to align solutions with business goals, industry-standard frameworks, regulatory requirements and organizational risk tolerance.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center operations.
• CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT, ROUTING AND INGESTION.
• Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.

additional skills & duties:

• Experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic.
• Strong experience creating and managing complex playbooks
• Familiarity with industry-standard security and compliance frameworks and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation.
• Experience supporting Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts, threat hunting, incident response and 24x7 operational handoffs.

Required Education/Certifications:

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OR

INFORMATION SECURITY RELATED

FIELD

EXPERIENCE MAY BE SUBSTITUTED IN LIEU OF EDUCATION

Preferred Education/Certifications:

Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform certification