Senior Cybersecurity Engineer- Logging and Monitoring (Virtual)

Company: The Home Depot
Location: Leander
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

POSITION PURPOSE The Home Depot is able to offer virtual employment of this position in the following states: AL, AK, AZ, AR, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MH, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, MP, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY.The Logging and monitoring service is responsible for creating and providing comprehensive visibility into asset security, asset health,and to ensure continuous flow of logs into a centralized logging platform.This position will handle ingestion and extraction of log data, support Home Depot's Cybersecurity organization with availability and integrity of data feeds essentialto safeguarding Home Depot's environment. A Successful candidate would be one with experience with a wide array of security logging technologies and security use cases, an analytical and detail-oriented mind, and strong organizational practices. MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES10% - Planning & Analysis:

• Researches and analyzes business trends and behavioral data to identify opportunities for improvements and new initiatives
• Drives the evaluation, development, and recommendation of specific technology products and platforms to provide cost-effective solutions that meet business and technology requirements
• Researches and designs best fit infrastructure, network, database, and security architectures for products
• Proactively creates and maintains tools for monitoring and support
• Participates in project planning and reporting across multiple efforts30% - Delivery & Execution:
  • Drives configuration, debugging, and support for infrastructure
  • Drives field and corporate roll-outs of technology
  • Drives the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs50% - Support & Enablement:
    • Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure
    • Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams
    • Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security; optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate
    • Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions
    • Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability
    • Opens and manages vendor problem tickets to resolution
    • Drives the production of in-house documentation around solutions
    • Monitors tools and proactively helps teams struggling with systems issues
    • Provides application support for software running in production
    • Creates scripts and tools that drive automation and enable product teams and end users to move towards self service10% - Learning:
      • Keeps abreast of innovations and industry trends as well as changes to internal systems and determines how they impacts tools, training, and support necessary to keep systems up, running, and secure
      • Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern systems engineering core practices (communities of practice)
      • Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations NATURE AND SCOPE Typically reports to the Systems Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager. Environment: Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant condition would be infrequent and unobjectionable. Travel: Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the timeMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Must be eighteen years of age or older. Must be legally permitted to work in the United States. Additional Minimum Qualifications: Must be legally permitted to work in the United States Education Required: The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a field of study related to the job. Years of Relevant Work Experience: 1 years Physical Requirements: Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles. Preferred Qualifications:
        • 5+ years of related cyber security work experience
        • 3+ years of experience with SIEM or similar logging infrastructure
        • Background in Linux/Unix Administration
        • Strong understanding of networking infrastructure concepts, technologies, and protocols
        • Strong understanding of enterprise application and service message logging standards
        • Strong understanding of PCI, SOX, and related regulatory compliance programs
        • Broad experience across IT Security technology stacks
        • Solid people, team, and communication skills Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:
          • Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
          • Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
          • Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
          • Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
          • Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
          • Global Perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
          • Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
          • Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
          • Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
          • Self-Development: Actively seeing new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
          • Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real timePay Rate: -

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