Security Engineer - SIEM/SOAR - Northeast region

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GuidePoint Security in the United States is seeking a skilled Security Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operations of security operations technologies. You will help develop telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation to deliver value to clients and internal teams.

The role requires strong troubleshooting and client communication, with the ability to lead through influence, manage scope and data volume, and collaborate with SOC analysts,

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of SIEM/SOAR architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience in log ingestion and data aggregation strategies.
• Expertise creating security content for SIEM platforms and dashboards.
• Experience with SOAR platforms and automation playbooks.
• Familiar with key security events and incident data.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain SIEM platforms across cloud and on‑prem sources.
• Onboard log sources from Azure, AWS, GCP, identity, endpoint, network, and apps.
• Develop and tune detection rules and analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Build dashboards and metrics for SOC operations and audits.
• Monitor SIEM health, data quality, and performance; optimize costs.
• Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks for triage and response.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts and clients; participate in on‑call rotation.

Skills

SIEM/SOAR engineering

Log ingestion and aggregation

Threat detection logic & dashboards

SOAR playbooks

Security events familiarity

Tools

Splunk ES

CrowdStrike NG-SIEM

Elastic Security

Palo Alto XSIAM

Google SecOps

Microsoft Sentinel

SentinelOne AI SIEM

Job description

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Security Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operational support of security operations technologies and workflows. This role will engage in the development of security telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation while providing "Wow Them" service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Security Engineer must demonstrate strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, and client communication skills. The engineer must lead through influence and apply sound business and financial awareness when making technical decisions involving project scope, level of effort, platform performance, data volume, and client value.

About the Northeast region SecOps practice

The Northeast region Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and operate the technologies and processes used to detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. We deliver consulting and engineering services across SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, detection engineering, observability, and SOC transformation.

Our team of engineers, consultants, architects, and platform specialists focuses on security data onboarding, detection coverage, workflow automation, platform optimization, and operational maturity. We partner with clients, account executives, project managers, technology providers, and internal delivery teams to implement practical and supportable security capabilities.

Key areas of focus include:

• Creating repeatable and measurable Security Operations services.
• Improving telemetry quality, detection coverage, and investigation efficiency.
• Evaluating and adopting emerging security technologies responsibly.

Roles and Responsibilities:

SIEM Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and maintain the SIEM platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, Google SecOps), including data ingestion, parsing, normalization, and retention.
• Onboard and tune log sources across cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), identity (Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory), endpoint (EDR), network, email security, SaaS, and line-of-business applications.
• Develop, test, and tune detection rules, correlation searches, and analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; reduce false positives and close detection gaps.
• Build dashboards, reports, and metrics for SOC operations, leadership, and audit/compliance needs.
• Monitor SIEM health, data quality, ingestion costs, and performance; recommend optimizations.

SOAR Engineering and Automation

• Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Sentinel automation/Logic Apps, Tines, Torq) for triage, enrichment, containment, and case management.
• Integrate security and IT tools via APIs, including EDR, identity, ticketing (ServiceNow/Jira), threat intelligence platforms, email gateways, and vulnerability scanners.
• Automate high-volume use cases such as phishing response, account compromise, malware triage, and user-behavior alerts.
• Establish version control, testing, and change-management practices for detections and playbooks (detection-as-code).
• Measure and report automation impact (e.g., mean time to detect/respond, analyst hours saved).

Collaboration and Governance

• Partner with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and threat intelligence to turn lessons learned into new detections and automations.
• Workwith IT, cloud, and application teams to ensure appropriate logging and onboarding standards.
• Support client‑facing security questionnaires, audits, and assessments (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001, NIST, client-specificrequirements) with evidenceanddocumentation.
• Maintainclear documentation: runbooks, data source inventories, detection catalogs, and architecture diagrams.
• Participatein on‑call or after‑hours support rotation for critical platform issues and major incidents, asneeded.

Required Experience and Education:

• 3-5 years of architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting experiencewith oneor more SIEM/SOAR solutions
• Proficiency developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies
• Expertise developing security-focused contentfor onemoreSIEM platforms (Splunk ES, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Elastic Security, Palo Alto XSIAM, Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, Sentinel One AI SIEM),includingcreation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards
• ExpertisewithSOAR platforms (Splunk SOAR, Palo AltoXSOAR, Tines, Torq)
• Familiarwithkeysecurity events