Platform Engineer (Security)

Roberts Recruiting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking a Cybersecurity Platform Engineer to enhance its security posture. Responsibilities include developing log collectors and establishing observability patterns. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of relevant experience, and strong skills in observability tools like ELK and Splunk. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years Data or Software engineer experience implementing reliable software solutions.
• Strong experience with observability and security monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, network, and cloud.

Responsibilities

• Establish observability patterns for logging.
• Collaborate with teams on end-to-end logging implementation.
• Develop log collectors using Python and other tools.
• Design dashboards for key security metrics.
• Apply enterprise security standards in practice.

Skills

Observability and security monitoring tools (ELK, Splunk, Devo, SumoLogic)

Software development best practices

Log collection technologies (Syslog-ng, ELK, FluentD, Rsyslog)

Agile methodologies

Python

Database knowledge (SQL, big data platforms)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computing Science or Engineering

Job description

Does change excite you and do you want to be part of the team that redefines how we secure our cloud assets? We are changing the way we unlock value and secure the enterprise through technology, and we want you to be part of it! We are growing our cybersecurity program with the vision to deliver quality software that adds value to our customers, faster and securely, at scale. The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We are building a state‑of‑the‑art cybersecurity program to better protect the firm's critical assets.

We are seeking a Cybersecurity Platform Engineer to assist in maintaining, extending, and operationalizing our Security, Logging and Observability Platforms. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our security posture and will be working with some of the latest logging and observability technologies.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Establishing observability patterns and best practices to guide onboarding of applications and infrastructure logging to centralized log management and SIEM platforms
• Working closely with global application and infrastructure teams to ensure successful implementation of end-to-end logging from various sources, systems, and log agent solutions.
• Develop log and event collectors using Python, Airflow, and other tools
• Design and implement visualization dashboards and data pipelines to report on key security metrics and indicators
• Learning and applying enterprise security standards such as logging and monitoring standards and customer system authentication standards.
• Build and support Logstash platforms through configuration management tools such as Chef.

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computing Science or Engineering
• Minimum 2+ years Data or Software engineer experience with a proven track record in implementing reliable and secure software solutions
• Strong Experience with observability and security monitoring tools like ELK, Splunk, Devo, SumoLogic
• Strong knowledge of 1 or more of the following log collection technologies: Syslog-ng, ELK, FluentD, Rsyslog
• Knowledge of Observability best practices and trends
• Experience working in an agile culture with agile methodologies
• Experience with git, and software development best practices
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform or equivalent
• Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, network, security and cloud
• Domain experience with cloud platform hosted solutions (e.g., Azure PaaS, Kubernetes (AKS), networking, OSS, and Infra as a code technologies)

Additional Skills:

• Experience in one or more of the following: NodeJS, Java, Spring boot (microservices), Python
• Strong knowledge of REST, SOAP and web service APIs
• Good knowledge and experience with databases, SQL and big data platforms
• Experience with deploying and managing continuous integration/deployment (concourse, jenkins, etc.)
• Knowledge of PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), Azure Kubernetes Service or other PaaS offerings
• Experience with Microservices architecture, Cloud Native development, NoSQL database, API Gateways, Containers, PaaS, etc.