Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited
About The Client:
A global professional services network and part of the Big Four, along with Client, EY, and KPMG, operating across 149 countries worldwide.
Qualifications:
10+ years of IT experience with minimum 7+ years in ServiceNow CMDB architecture.
Strong expertise in:
ServiceNow CMDB & CSDM (Common Service Data Model) – end-to-end adoption.
CI class modeling, service modeling, and dependency mapping.
Proven experience in:
Large-scale CMDB implementations / transformation programs.
CMDB data cleanup, normalization, and governance frameworks.
Deep hands-on expertise in:
Identification & Reconciliation Engine (IRE).
CI Identification rules, Data source precedence, reconciliation strategies.
Strong understanding of CMDB Data Quality Management:
Completeness, correctness, compliance, duplication control.
CMDB health dashboards and KPIs.
How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.
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About VARITE:
VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
SCOPE: THIS POSITION WILL SERVE AS A SIEM ENGINEER WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION’S DIVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL SHOW EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE SUCCESSFULLY DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING, MAINTAINING AND OPTIMIZING PALO ALTO CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR IN LARGE-SCALE, MULTI-TENANT SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS. THIS CONTRACTOR WILL WORK WITH A LARGE ENTERPRISE SECURITY TEAM AND A 24X7 SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER (SOC), ASSISTING FULL-TIME SECURITY ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND ANALYSTS WITH THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF SIEM, XDR, DETECTION AND RESPONSE CAPABILITIES SUPPORTING MULTIPLE STATE AGENCIES.
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: THIS CONTRACTOR WILL BE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR ENGINEERING, ADMINISTRATION, DETECTION CONTENT, AUTOMATION AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WHILE ALSO PROVIDING IMPORTANT SECONDARY SUPPORT FOR CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT AND INGESTION. THE ROLE REQUIRES HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE SUPPORTING BOTH SECURITY ENGINEERING AND SOC OPERATIONS, INCLUDING MULTI-TENANT ONBOARDING, TENANT-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATIONS, ACCESS CONTROLS, DATA SEPARATION, INTEGRATIONS, DASHBOARDS, REPORTING, INCIDENT RESPONSE, THREAT HUNTING, PLAYBOOKS, RUNBOOKS, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND ANALYST ENABLEMENT. THE CANDIDATE MUST BE ABLE TO SUPPORT STRATEGIC PLANNING, SOLUTION DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, TROUBLESHOOTING, PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF SECURE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES.
MANDATORY SCREENING REQUIREMENTS: THESE REQUIREMENTS ARE STRICTLY ENFORCED AND NON-NEGOTIABLE. NO EXCEPTIONS CAN BE GRANTED. CANDIDATES WHO CANNOT PASS THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR HIRE. ALL APPLICANTS MUST SUCCESSFULLY PASS A FULL CREDIT CHECK AND CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK DURING THE INITIAL HIRING PROCESS. ONCE ONBOARD, THEY MUST OBTAIN AND RETAIN ANNUAL CJIS CERTIFICATION AS PART OF THE ONGOING EMPLOYMENT PROCESS.
OTHER: THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A MONTHLY ON-CALL ROTATION SUPPORTING THE 24X7 SOC. AFTER-HOURS MAINTENANCE, INCIDENT ESCALATION SUPPORT AND OPERATIONAL HANDOFFS MAY BE REQUIRED AS NEEDED.
DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE AND WILL PARTICIPATE IN A MONTHLY ON-CALL ROTATION SUPPORTING A 24X7 SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER SERVING MULTIPLE STATE AGENCIES. OTHER AFTER-HOURS WORK MAY BE REQUIRED AS NEEDED.
•PRIMARILY ASSIST IN THE PLANNING, DESIGN, DEPLOYMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT OF ENTERPRISE SIEM AND XDR CAPABILITIES, INCLUDING:
PALO ALTO CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR PLATFORM ENGINEERING, CONFIGURATION, OPTIMIZATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING
MULTI-TENANT AGENCY ONBOARDING, TENANT-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION, ROLE-BASED ACCESS, DATA SEGREGATION, DASHBOARDS AND REPORTING
DETECTION ENGINEERING, CORRELATION RULES, ANALYTICS, THREAT-HUNTING QUERIES, WATCHLISTS, SUPPRESSION LOGIC AND FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION
•SECONDARILY ASSIST IN THE PLANNING, DESIGN, DEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT OF LOG MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY DATA PIPELINES, INCLUDING:
CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, ROUTING, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT, FILTERING, REPLAY AND INGESTION
ONBOARDING AND HEALTH MONITORING OF CLOUD, ENDPOINT, NETWORK, IDENTITY, SAAS AND CUSTOM APPLICATION TELEMETRY
LOG VOLUME, RETENTION, PERFORMANCE AND COST OPTIMIZATION WHILE MAINTAINING SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS
INTEGRATIONS WITH TICKETING, CASE MANAGEMENT, NOTIFICATION, IDENTITY, THREAT INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS AS NEEDED
•DEVELOP, TEST, DEPLOY AND MAINTAIN AUTOMATED RESPONSE WORKFLOWS AND PLAYBOOKS FOR ENRICHMENT, TRIAGE, CONTAINMENT, ESCALATION, NOTIFICATIONS, CASE MANAGEMENT AND INCIDENT RESPONSE.
•CREATE AND MAINTAIN OPERATIONAL RUNBOOKS, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES, ESCALATION MATRICES, TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDES, ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAMS, DATA-FLOW DOCUMENTATION, USE-CASE CATALOGS AND ANALYST KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES.
•SUPPORT TIER 1 THROUGH TIER 3 SOC ANALYSTS AND INCIDENT RESPONDERS THROUGH PLATFORM TROUBLESHOOTING, DETECTION TUNING, THREAT HUNTING, TECHNICAL ESCALATION, KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND SHIFT HANDOFFS.
•MONITOR AND REPORT ON INGESTION HEALTH, PLATFORM AVAILABILITY, ALERT VOLUMES, DETECTION COVERAGE, FALSE POSITIVES, SERVICE LEVELS, MEAN TIME TO DETECT, MEAN TIME TO RESPOND AND TENANT-SPECIFIC OPERATIONAL METRICS.
•ENSURE HIGH AVAILABILITY, RESILIENCE, BACKUP, RECOVERY, LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROLLED CHANGE PROCESSES FOR SIEM, XDR AND SUPPORTING LOG PIPELINE SERVICES.
•COLLABORATE WITH SECURITY ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS, ANALYSTS AND AGENCY STAKEHOLDERS TO ALIGN SOLUTIONS WITH BUSINESS GOALS, INDUSTRY-STANDARD FRAMEWORKS, REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONAL RISK TOLERANCE.
•HANDS-ON PALO ALTO CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT.
•Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center operations.
•Experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic.
•Strong experience creating and managing complex playbooks
•CRIBL DATA MODELING, LOG PIPELINE DESIGN, PARSING, NORMALIZATION, ENRICHMENT, ROUTING AND INGESTION.
•Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
•Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources.
•Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.
•HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE OPERATING CORTEX XSIAM AND CORTEX XDR IN A LARGE, MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENT.
•Hands-on Cribl administration, data modeling and log pipeline optimization experience.
•Experience supporting Tier 1 through Tier 3 SOC analysts, threat hunting, incident response and 24x7 operational handoffs.
•Familiarity with industry-standard security and compliance frameworks and experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures and technical documentation.
• BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OR INFORMATION SECURITY RELATEDFIELD
• EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE MAY BE SUBSTITUTED IN LIEU OF EDUCATION
• FIVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN SUPPORTING LARGE IT ENVIRONMENTS AND/OR SYSTEM DEPLOYMENTS
• CISSP, Security+ or GIAC certification
• Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform cert.
Requirements
Required Skills
Skill Type
Skill Name
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Bachelor's Degree in an Information Technology or Information Security related field; 8+ years of relevant work may be substituted in lieu of education
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
5+ years of experience in supporting large IT environments and/or system deployments
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Palo Alo Cortex XSIAM and Cortex XDR Design, implementation, administration, and operational support
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Experience engineering and supporting SIEM capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 Security Operations Center operations
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
CRIBL Data Modeling, Log Pipeline Design, Parsing, Normalization, Enrichment, Routing and Ingestion experience
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as Python and Bash
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, Linux, Windows and custom application sources
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks
Preferred Skills
Skill Type
Skill Name
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
CISSP, Security+ or GIAC certification
CertificationEducationLicenseOtherSkill
Palo Alto Cortex, Cribl or other relevant SIEM/security platform certification
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