Senior SIEM & XDR Engineer (Remote)

CAI; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a Senior SIEM Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM/XDR and Cribl solutions in a large-scale, remote, contract capacity. The role supports a 24x7 SOC environment and requires expertise in detection engineering, threat hunting, log pipelines, and incident response.

The Senior SIEM Engineer will lead technical design, onboarding of tenants, and automation while collaborating with security architects, engineers, and analysts.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting Cortex XSIAM/XDR.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize Cortex XSIAM and XDR platforms.
• Support SIEM/XDR operations in large multi-tenant SOC.
• Configure tenant onboarding, RBAC, data segregation, dashboards.
• Develop and tune detection content and alert logic.
• Create security automation, playbooks, and IR workflows.
• Support Cribl log management and data routing.
• Integrate security tools with ticketing, identity, threat intel.
• Maintain runbooks and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in monthly on-call rotation for 24x7 SOC.
• Collaborate with architects and analysts to improve ops.

Skills

SIEM engineering

Detection engineering

Threat hunting

Python & Bash scripting

Cribl log management

Incident response

Data modeling & log pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Information Security

Tools

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

Cortex XDR

Cribl

Python

Bash

Job description

CAI is seeking a Senior SIEM Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM/XDR and Cribl solutions in a large-scale, remote, contract capacity. The role supports a 24x7 SOC environment and requires expertise in detection engineering, threat hunting, log pipelines, and incident response.

The Senior SIEM Engineer will lead technical design, onboarding of tenants, and automation while collaborating with security architects, engineers, and analysts.