Hybrid Senior Manager, Splunk Engineering

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• Job title: Senior Manager, Splunk Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $160,000 - $240,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Firewalls, Splunk, Swift
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Scottsdale, United States

About the role

• Sr. Manager of Splunk Engineering at Early Warning focusing on logging infrastructure and security compliance in the financial sector. Leading a high-performance team managing Splunk Enterprise and security ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Mentors and manages the Splunk Engineering team and provides effective leadership to drive a highly engaged, high-performance team
• Leads the risk and security organization staff to identify, document, architect and develop process efficiencies
• Maintains an excellent understanding of standard roles, processes and tools utilized within an information security organization
• Defines, leads, gathers, writes and formalizes process use-cases, functional, and non-functional requirements
• Communicates and organizes stakeholders and customers within projects to build sustainable solutions with required capabilities
• Leads, architects, and designs solutions based on project use cases and requirements
• Leads both the strategic and tactical management of the Splunk Enterprise, Security & User Behavioral Analytic ecosystems, concentrating on data incorporation, system fine-tuning, capacity planning, security and system updates
• Develops and manages effective monitoring, alerting, and reporting to uphold service level agreements and ensure visibility into system status, usage and security threats
• Leads efforts to update platforms and apply patches, addressing vulnerabilities and adhering to supported standards
• Collaborates with other information security departments to augment threat detection capabilities and bolster incident response actions
• Leads incident management processes, including troubleshooting, resolving outages, and conducting breach investigations
• Directly engages with end-users for requirements gathering, troubleshooting, and crafting Splunk queries, alerts, reports, and dashboards, ensuring hands-on involvement in technical tasks
• Produces, updates, and verifies documentation accuracy and relevance for the logging environment
• Works alongside auditors and fulfills regulatory standards, employing security tools to aid in compliance initiatives
• Delivers metrics related to platform performance, capacity, and user management, involving direct analysis and refinement efforts
• Ensures 24x7 operational readiness and swift incident response through participation in an on-call roster
• Keeps abreast of the latest technologies, trends, and strategies in the field, applying best practices for logging and monitoring
• Impacts the CSIRTS team to be able to respond to threats by creating, tuning and testing high fidelity rules for our SIEM platform
• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of detecting threats
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Security, Engineering, or Math
• Minimum 10 years of Splunk and/or information security technology experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, coach and guide
• Ability to work within a team environment and independently
• Effective communication skills to speak and write for all technology experience levels
• Effective interpersonal skills, able to comfortably present to peers, coworkers, and customers
• Excellent experience in analyzing technical issues and making recommendations for corrective action
• A propensity for continued development of skills though research and training
• Expert in analyzing advanced technical issues and solving problems or making recommendations for corrective action
• In-depth knowledge of SIEM components, data ingestion processes, and querying data
• Demonstrated capability to steer projects, oversee daily tasks, and directly engage in technical duties
• Exceptional problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with the competency to elucidate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Expert knowledge of network monitoring and network exploitation techniques
• Expert experience in responding to malicious threats coming from various sources
• Experience managing technical staff and direct reports

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work