Skip to main contentA logo with &quat;the muse&quat; in dark blue text.

SIEM & Data Analytics Engineer

AT Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific

SIEM & Data Analytics Engineer

Frederick, MD

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of a hard-working, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With annual revenues over $40 billion and the most significant investment in R&D in the industry, we give our more than 100,000 colleagues the resources and chances to create meaningful contributions to the world.

Summary

Discover Impactful Work: As a SIEM Engineer, you have a global responsibility for enabling cybersecurity response within the Corporate Infrastructure & Security (CIS) team. In this position, you will play a meaningful role in building and maintaining cybersecurity audit log delivery pipelines and developing searches, alerts, and dashboards within a cloud SIEM environment. Collaborating with Cybersecurity Operations, you'll help us proactively identify and respond to potential threats to keep our organization secure.

Want more jobs like this?

Get jobs in Frederick, MD delivered to your inbox every week.

By signing up, you agree to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.


A Day in the Life:

  • Log Pipelines: Map out and help maintain audit log collection, transformation, and delivery to cloud SIEM and/or data lakes for long-term retention and regulatory compliance.
  • Writing Queries: Build sophisticated search queries to find vital log activity and dynamically join diverse datasets together to present patterns of activity.
  • Alerting and Dashboarding: Develop new alerting mechanisms tailored to our security landscape within our SIEM platform. Build insightful dashboards that provide clear visualizations of security metrics.
  • Systems Administration: Support a large AWS cloud environment of Unix systems running the log collection backbone.

Keys to Success:

  • Cross-Team Collaboration: Liaise with SOC analysts, security engineers, and incident responders to understand critical processes and craft effective automations.
  • Documentation and Training: Ensure documentation and processes are well defined so that the engineered solutions are understood and repeatable.
  • Ensure solutions are well built, backed up & restore tested, and consistently maintained for health.
  • Problem Solving & Communication: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to communicate technical concepts to different audiences.

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in cybersecurity, computer science, systems engineering, or related field. Equivalent work experience is acceptable.
  • Certifications not required, but encouraged: Splunk Cloud Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Security Engineer

Experience

  • 2+ years of experience in a security engineering role with a focus on Splunk Cloud & engineering and development. Experience maintaining Splunk forwarders, fleets of apps and add-ons, handling configuration and version upgrades.
  • 2+ years of experience managing Splunk Enterprise Security development and tuning. Experience developing RBA use-cases, data normalization, and assets & identities configuration.
  • At least two years experience in AWS/Cloud-native platforms

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • In-depth knowledge of SOAR platforms (Splunk SOAR/Phantom, Palo Alto XSOAR, Swimlane, etc.).
  • Strong scripting skills in Python or other relevant languages.
  • Understanding of network security protocols, threat intelligence sources, and incident response methodologies.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Client-provided location(s): Frederick, MD, USA
Job ID: ThermoFisher-R-01277228
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Fitness Subsidies
  • Parental Benefits

    • Adoption Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Volunteer Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Financial Counseling
    • Performance Bonus
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Internship Program
    • Mentor Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program