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Senior Lead, Security (SIEM Engineer)

AT Kyndryl
Kyndryl

Senior Lead, Security (SIEM Engineer)

Budapest, Hungary / Remote

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

Role and Responsibilities of the Job:

  • SIEM Security Correlation Engineer creates, modifies, and tunes the system rules to adjust the specifications of alerts and incidents. SIEM Security Correlation Engineer will work with customer's designated personnel to provide continual correlation rule tuning, incident classification and prioritization recommendations, report query adjustments, and various other configuration activities to help customer fully optimize the SIEM system capabilities as well as the audit and logging features of the event and log sources.
  • Managing SIEM platform (preferably QRadar, Splunk, Sentinel) on Linux (RedHat) host systems
  • Implementing patch, new releases, hotfixes on complex HA environment
  • Communicating with end customer, making reports on capacity, usage
  • Tuning of SIEM platform
  • Implementation of new log sources
  • Collaborating with Internal and global support teams to solve platform related issues
  • Providing on-call service

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What we can offer:

  • Competitive salary and benefits: Private Life & Health Insurance, Voluntary Pension Fund contribution and monthly benefit allowance to SZÉP card.
  • Internal rewards and recognition programs.
  • Ongoing wellbeing initiatives (including mental health support), team outings and seasonal gifts.
  • Commuting and relocation support for local, EU or overseas candidates and their spouses and children (provided certain conditions are met).
  • Annual profit-sharing bonus subject to company performance.
  • Personal and professional development both in-person and online (certified trainings, on-the-job coaching & mentoring, career progression support); we also nurture new talent and 'career changers' through our comprehensive education programs and exclusive accreditations.
  • Flexible working opportunities (part-time and home office) for a better work-life balance.
  • Annual 1-day paid leave for volunteering.
  • An open, diverse, inclusive, and empathetic culture that supports learning and encourages collaboration over competition.
  • As the proud owner of the Family Friendly Workplace certification, we provide great benefits for working parents with fair maternity and paternity leave policies such as additional bonding leave for dads and same-sex domestic partners at the birth or adoption of a child, accommodating working parents based on needs, organizing family events and many more.

Your Future at Kyndryl

When you join Kyndryl, you're not just joining a company - you're entering a space of opportunities. Our partnerships with industry alliances and vendors mean you'll have access to skilling and certification programs needed to excel in Security & Resiliency, while simultaneously supporting your personal growth. Whether you envision your career path as a technical leader within cybersecurity or transition into other technical, consulting, or go-to-market roles - we're invested in your journey.

Who You Are
You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Who You Are

Required Professional and Technical Expertise:

  • 3+ years of experience in SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel)
  • 3+ years of experience in Linux server management

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise:

  • Effective written communication in English
  • In depth experience with SOC technologies, esp. SIEM, ticketing, firewall, ID/PS, WAF, Internet proxies
  • Up to date know-how of latest security trends
  • Experience with formulating use cases and the translation into SIEM rules
  • Strong logical and analytical skills to help define new use cases, statistical correlation rules and analytical monitoring functions
  • Knowledge of log formats and ability to aggregate and parse log data
  • Strong understanding of Regex
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • CISSP, CEH"
  • Required Education: Master's Degree / Bachelor's Degree

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we're not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That's the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary; Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Job ID: Kyndryl-R-35411
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Flexible Work Hours
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Professional Development

    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns