Data Engineer - Security

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What you’ll be doing...

You will be responsible for log analytics, anomaly monitoring and alert configuration, log shipping skills using various log shippers and to perform security events monitoring and reporting anomalies to prevent any security incidents. As an experienced mid-level developer, you will work on Application Logging and Monitoring program which is an IT program where the team collects log events for user activities from all IT applications and analyzes the log events to look for vulnerabilities, security incidents and reports for action.

• Working with teams on how to document and mitigate security issues.
• Troubleshooting difficult technical problems.
• Researching root cause for false positives and update indicators as appropriate to reduce false-positive while minimizing false-negatives.
• Analyzing events and alerts, and properly classify as incidents or false-positives.
• Working with various teams regarding Application log shipping and Log Analysis requirements.

Where you'll be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your organization.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience in Data Analytics or Data Engineering.
• Three years of experience with Splunk or ELK stack.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in Kafka/other message broker or queueing technologies to handle data flows and distribution.
• Ability to develop dashboards, reports for the Security requirements from various departments; Maintain partnership with Splunk Platform team to resolve issues at platform level.
• Experience in managing logshipping process, handling various shippers like Logstash, FluentD, FluentBit, Splunk Forwarder and various logging libraries (Log4J, log4N, logback).
• Experience in managing log onboarding process for containerizationbased on log plugins.
• Experience in evaluating new information security tools.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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