Senior Security Engineer - SIEM/SOAR - Northeast region

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Senior Security Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operational support of security operations technologies and workflows. This role will engage in the development of security telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation while providing “Wow Them” service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Senior Security Engineer must demonstrate strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, and client communication skills. The engineer must lead through influence and apply sound business and financial awareness when making technical decisions involving project scope, level of effort, platform performance, data volume, and client value.

About the Northeast region SecOps practice

The Northeast region Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and operate the technologies and processes used to detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. We deliver consulting and engineering services across SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, detection engineering, observability, and SOC transformation.

Our team of engineers, consultants, architects, and platform specialists focuses on security data onboarding, detection coverage, workflow automation, platform optimization, and operational maturity. We partner with clients, account executives, project managers, technology providers, and internal delivery teams to implement practical and supportable security capabilities.

Key areas of focus include:

• Creating repeatable and measurable Security Operations services.
• Improving telemetry quality, detection coverage, and investigation efficiency.
• Evaluating and adopting emerging security technologies responsibly.

Roles and Responsibilities:  

SIEM Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and maintain the SIEM platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, Google SecOps), including data ingestion, parsing, normalization, and retention.
• Onboard and tune log sources across cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), identity (Entra ID, Okta, Active Directory), endpoint (EDR), network, email security, SaaS, and line-of-business applications.
• Develop, test, and tune detection rules, correlation searches, and analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; reduce false positives and close detection gaps.
• Build dashboards, reports, and metrics for SOC operations, leadership, and audit/compliance needs.
• Monitor SIEM health, data quality, ingestion costs, and performance; recommend optimizations.

SOAR Engineering and Automation

• Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks (e.g., Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Sentinel automation/Logic Apps, Tines, Torq) for triage, enrichment, containment, and case management.
• Integrate security and IT tools via APIs, including EDR, identity, ticketing (ServiceNow/Jira), threat intelligence platforms, email gateways, and vulnerability scanners.
• Automate high-volume use cases such as phishing response, account compromise, malware triage, and user-behavior alerts.
• Establish version control, testing, and change-management practices for detections and playbooks (detection-as-code).
• Measure and report automation impact (e.g., mean time to detect/respond, analyst hours saved).

Collaboration and Governance

• Partner with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and threat intelligence to turn lessons learned into new detections and automations.
• Work with IT, cloud, and application teams to ensure appropriate logging and onboarding standards.
• Support client-facing security questionnaires, audits, and assessments (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, client-specific requirements) with evidence and documentation.
• Maintain clear documentation: runbooks, data source inventories, detection catalogs, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in on-call or after-hours support rotation for critical platform issues and major incidents, as needed.

Required Experience and Education: 

• 5+ years of architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting experience with one or more SIEM/SOAR solutions
• Proficiency developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies
• Expertise developing security-focused content for one more SIEM platforms (Splunk ES, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Elastic Security, Palo Alto XSIAM, Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, Sentinel One AI SIEM), including creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards
• Expertise with SOAR platforms (Splunk SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, Tines, Torq)
• Familiarity with key security events on common IT platforms
• Deep proficiency in client and server operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux
• General networking and security troubleshooting (firewalls, routing, NAT, etc.)
• Scripting and development skills (BASH, Perl, Python or Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions
• Ability to autonomously prioritize and successfully deliver across a portfolio of projects
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes

Preferred Experience and Education:

• Experience with platforms such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform and SaltStack
• Experience with other Information Security solutions including CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, ZScaler, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Microsoft Defender products, Carbon Black, Splunk, and/or Cisco
• Experience authoring security runbooks, policy, and best practice documentation

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work
• Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day
• Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day

Note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

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Why GuidePoint?

GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,300 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.

Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.  

This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.

Some added perks….

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option