[Remote] Cybersecurity

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. State Street is a global institution that helps institutional investors manage risk and drive performance. The Cybersecurity role involves serving as a technical expert for product engineering and service support for enterprise security technologies, focusing on SIEM and data platforms, while mentoring junior staff and overseeing various technical responsibilities.


Responsibilities

  • Will serve as a technical expert for product engineering and service support for critical enterprise security technologies of the Company’s Information Security Services
  • Primarily entails hands on technical product design and deployment specifically for building and managing SIEM & data platforms like Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Databricks and Cribl
  • Will also be a mentor to junior staff members, both on-shore and off-shore, to develop their skills in SIEM platforms
  • Specific duties include: engineering, implementing and administering SIEM platforms Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security in public cloud and on-premise datacenters; analyzing, designing, building and supporting Splunk Multi-Cluster Architecture; configuring, deploying, and maintaining the Cribl Log Stream platform; incident and Problem Management, Change and Release Management, Vendor Management, Capacity Management functions for these applications; support 24X7 monitoring and maintenance of the data platforms; product architecture, engineering and roadmap and Infrastructure Services for platforms supported by Cyber Data & Analytics team; assisting the content engineering team in developing security-focused content threat detection logic and operational dashboards in Splunk; log telemetry and Data onboarding to cyber data platforms like Splunk, Databricks etc., using data routing tools like Cribl; engineer & build large scale data platforms in public clouds (AWS, Azure) to support Cyber Threat Detection, Analytics, Observability & Cyber Research functions using DevOps tooling and CI/CD processes; provide engineering and design support to meet growth needs while maintaining performance, stability and scalability of the platforms; gain Knowledge managing Security solutions like DLP, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Symantec solutions, McAfee, or Active directory or similar security stacks; and attain one or more of the following certifications: Splunk Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Full-time telecommuting from within the U.S. permitted pursuant to Company policy
  • Up to 5% domestic travel when required to State Street offices in Massachusetts

Skills

  • Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or related field; plus 6 years of experience in Security Engineering, System Administration, Database Administration, Network Engineering, or Software Engineering with a concentration in Cybersecurity
  • Alternatively, will accept, bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or related field; plus 9 years of experience in Security Engineering, System Administration, Database Administration, Network Engineering, or Software Engineering with a concentration in Cybersecurity
  • 6 years of IT engineering experience in building and managing infrastructure and security platforms
  • 6 years of professional engineering experience with the Splunk platform
  • Minimum 3 full lifecycle implementation experiences of Splunk Enterprise on-prem and/or public cloud (AWS, Azure)
  • Proven experience with Splunk's multiple deployment options - including on-premise distributed deployments and public cloud that can be leveraged for other large scale data platforms like Cribl, Databricks
  • Expert-level experience with SIEM technologies - implementation, tuning, troubleshooting
  • Demonstrated expertise in building, deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting the various facets of large scale Splunk clusters and supporting apps
  • Demonstrated expertise in on-boarding of standard and custom data sources in Splunk with solid knowledge of using regular expressions to create extractions
  • Experience in implementing, architecting and administering Splunk Enterprise Security, UBA and Splunk Phantom
  • Experience with AWS Services and technologies like AWS Lambda, VPC, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, EKS
  • Hands-on experience with integrating Kubernetes platforms like AWS EKS or OpenShift Container Platform
  • Solid ability to Maintain, Manage and Monitor large scale data platforms like Splunk, Cribl
  • Demonstrated experience in clustering and load balance Environments setup
  • Proven ability to provide production support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and expedient remediation of Splunk instance issues
  • Proven solid ability in writing Splunk queries in Splunk Programming Language (SPL) and data ingestion, normalization
  • Demonstrated understanding of Splunk APIs and SDK
  • Demonstrated experience developing in XML, Bash, JavaScript and Python, Perl, PowerShell scripts
  • Experience with log management, data processing, and data analytics
  • Knowledge of networking and switching protocols, and infrastructure services to troubleshoot and identify DNS, NTP, routing, switching, and firewall issues affecting connectivity of Splunk instances to users, end nodes, and heavy forwarders
  • Solid Documentation skills and team player who can work in an 'Agile' fashion

Benefits

  • Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
  • Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
  • Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Program
  • Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
  • Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
  • Inclusive development opportunities
  • Flexible work-life support
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Vibrant employee networks

Company Overview

  • State Street offers a range of financial services, including investment management, research and trading, as well as asset management. It was founded in 1792, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • State Street has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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