Senior Engineer - SIEM Platform Engineering & Operations

Koitecc Solutions; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Koitecc Solutions in Charlotte, NC seeks a Senior Engineer for SIEM Platform Engineering & Operations to engineer, monitor, and optimize the firm’s SIEM ecosystem, including Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, ensuring data quality and analytic reliability.

You will lead data pipelines, develop dashboards, and collaborate across teams to enhance detections and defenses, while mentoring others in SIEM best practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Security Operations, SIEM Engineering, or related enterprise disciplines.
• Hands‑on experience with Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel at scale.
• Experience mapping log sources to CIM/OCSF/CEF models and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, monitor, and maintain SIEM platforms (Splunk, Sentinel).
• Implement resiliency controls: clustering, latency tracking, workload distribution.
• Manage data ingestion pipelines (Kafka, Cribl, Splunk Forwarders, Sentinel connectors).
• Develop dashboards for throughput, lag, schema drift, and data quality validation.
• Define and enforce data SLIs/SLOs for freshness, completeness, and availability.
• Oversee CIM/OCSF/CEF normalization and enrichment.
• Maintain Anvilogic content platform: rules health, version control, analytics dependencies.
• Build unified observability dashboards for SIEM state and reliability.
• Serve as escalation point for data outages and platform degradations.
• Collaborate to design improved detections, analytics, and defenses.
• Write and optimize SPL, KQL, and related queries.

Skills

Influence

Result Orientation

Solution Design

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Access and Identity Management

Cyber Security

Information Systems Management

Risk Management

Solution Delivery Process

Collaboration

Critical Thinking

DevOps Practices

Financial Management

Test Engineering

Job description

Senior Engineer SIEM Platform Engineering & Operations

The Senior Engineer SIEM Platform Engineering & Operations is responsible for engineering, monitoring, and optimizing the firm\'s SIEM ecosystem including Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and associated data pipelines to ensure data quality, platform resiliency, and analytic reliability. This role enhances the security data environment, leads strategic and tactical improvements, and serves as a SIEM subject‑matter expert and mentor across Cyber Security Technology teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Engineer, monitor, and maintain the operational health and resiliency of SIEM platforms including Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Implement SIEM platform resiliency controls including cluster monitoring, ingestion latency tracking, and workload distribution optimizations.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot the data ingestion pipeline including Kafka clusters, Cribl pipelines, Splunk Forwarders, and Sentinel connectors.
• Develop dashboards for pipeline throughput, message lag, schema drift, and end‑to‑end data quality validation.
• Manage and enforce data SLIs/SLOs across freshness, completeness, correctness, and availability.
• Ensure proper CIM/OCSF/CEF normalization and enrichment for all security‑relevant data sources.
• Oversee the Anvilogic content management platform including rule execution health, version control, and analytics dependency monitoring.
• Develop unified observability dashboards covering SIEM platform state, ingestion health, detection pipeline execution, and analytic reliability.
• Serve as escalation point for SIEM data outages, ingestion failures, analytic misfires, and platform degradations.
• Collaborate with operational and engineering teams to design and enhance security detections, analytics, and proactive defenses.
• Write, optimize, and maintain SPL, KQL, and other query languages to support analytics, threat detection, and investigations.
• Support Model Risk Management (MRM) efforts to describe AI or ML models in use by any of our SIEM technologies.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in Security Operations, SIEM Engineering, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, or related enterprise disciplines.
• Hands‑on experience with Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel in large‑scale environments.
• Experience with Kafka, Cribl, Databricks, Hadoop, Python, SQL, Pandas, Spark, or similar data platforms.
• Experience mapping log sources into structured models such as CIM, OCSF, CEF.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex SIEM ingestion, data quality, and infrastructure performance issues.
• Experience with EDR, SIEM, SOAR, and other enterprise‑scale cybersecurity tools.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, drive consensus, and deliver results across distributed teams.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with offensive security tooling and integrating SIEM/SOAR/TIP platforms.
• Knowledge of data science processes and statistical methods for detection enhancement.
• Experience threat hunting or performing detection engineering in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or M365.
• Experience maintaining Splunk KV stores, apps, and performing regular upgrades.
• Experience building SRE‑style observability and reliability patterns (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) for cybersecurity platforms.
• Awareness of AI‑enabled Security Operations technologies.

Skills

• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Access and Identity Management
• Cyber Security
• Information Systems Management
• Risk Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• DevOps Practices
• Financial Management
• Test Engineering

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay

$150,000.00 - $190,700.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.