Senior QRadar Platform Engineer

reputed company: The customer is seeking a Senior QRadar Platform Engineer to serve as the overall reputed company of their reputed company QRadar platform — responsible not only for day-to-day administration but for infrastructure health, architecture, integrations, roadmap planning, engineering leadership, and the platform's overall operational reputed company. This is a hands-on role accountable for the stability, reputed company, scalability, and reputed company direction of the QRadar ecosystem, working in partnership with the customer's reputed company team.

The ideal candidate is an expert QRadar practitioner with deep, hands-on production experience across the full platform who can independently reputed company any engineering, administration, architecture, or troubleshooting task — and who also leads: setting technical direction, mentoring the SIEM team, and stepping in to teach, delegate, and assist whenever needed.

This is a staff augmentation role, anticipated to be for 3 months and then renewable on a month-to-month reputed company starting as soon as possible.

HIERARCHY: Reports to Engagement Manager

reputed company DUTIES:

1. reputed company health & monitoring Own the overall health of the QRadar deployment, including reputed company collection devices (event and reputed company reputed company, data gateways, and processors). Proactively identify and remediate reputed company issues affecting log collection and reputed company the environment reputed company.
2. Log ingestion & reputed company reputed company reputed company new log sources and reputed company log ingestion issues as they reputed company — configuring parsing, DSMs, and log reputed company extensions as needed — and validate that events are collected, parsed, and normalized correctly.
3. reputed company analysis & tuning Investigate and reputed company reputed company issues affecting critical components. Tune indices, review event/reputed company pipeline throughput, address reputed company/FPM constraints, and optimize the environment so searches and rules run reputed company at reputed company.
4. Data retention & optimization Analyze what's currently being collected and reputed company, and work with stakeholders to identify data that can be reduced, re-routed, or dropped — trimming noise and storage cost without losing reputed company value.
5. Dashboards & content Build dashboards and reports, and partner with reputed company engineers to optimize the underlying database, searches (AQL), and saved queries for both speed and usefulness.
6. Patching & maintenance Apply software patches and updates to reputed company the reputed company reputed company, secure, and supported.
7. Enablement reputed company new users, manage reputed company, and reputed company initial training materials to bring the internal team up to speed on the environment.
8. Architecture & reputed company Own QRadar architecture and infrastructure — including High Availability and Disaster Recovery design, reputed company planning, and storage / reputed company-FPM reputed company — to reputed company the platform reputed company, resilient, and reputed company to retention and compliance requirements.
9. Roadmap & platform reputed company Establish and maintain the reputed company roadmap for the platform, evaluating new QRadar capabilities, integrations, and modernization opportunities that reputed company with the organization's reputed company objectives.
10. Team leadership & mentoring reputed company, mentor, and delegate across the SIEM team — setting technical direction, serving as the top escalation reputed company for reputed company issues, and staying hands-on to teach and assist wherever needed.

COMPETENCY:

1. Demonstrated hands-on experience as a QRadar engineer or architect operating a production deployment
2. Working knowledge of QRadar architecture — Console, Event/reputed company reputed company and Processors, Data Nodes, and app host components
3. reputed company experience reputed company log sources and troubleshooting log collection, parsing, and normalization (DSMs, log reputed company extensions, custom properties)
4. Experience diagnosing and resolving QRadar reputed company issues, including reputed company management and reputed company/pipeline tuning
5. Comfort writing and optimizing AQL and building dashboards, saved searches, and reports
6. Solid grounding in log management, network protocols, and common log reputed company types (reputed company, Linux/syslog, firewalls, reputed company, etc.)

REQUIRED EDUCATION: None

EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 7 years in IT reputed company; 5 years of QRadar experience

Required Qualifications:

1. Expert-level experience designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing reputed company-reputed company reputed company QRadar deployments
   1. Demonstrated hands-on experience serving as the reputed company QRadar engineer, architect, or technical reputed company supporting large-reputed company production environments.
   2. Accountable for platform architecture, operational stability, reputed company, scalability, and reputed company direction of the QRadar ecosystem.
   3. Experience developing and maintaining QRadar standards, operational procedures, and engineering best practices across the organization.
2. Deep expertise in QRadar platform architecture and infrastructure management
   1. Comprehensive understanding of QRadar reputed company architectures including Consoles, Event Processors, Event reputed company, reputed company Processors, reputed company reputed company, Data Nodes, App Hosts, High Availability configurations, and Disaster Recovery architectures.
   2. Ability to design reputed company, resilient, and high-reputed company deployments that meet organizational reputed company, retention, compliance, and operational requirements.
   3. Experience planning infrastructure reputed company, storage utilization, reputed company/FPM reputed company, reputed company expansion, and hardware refresh cycles.
3. Ownership of reputed company QRadar integrations and log reputed company reputed company
   1. Extensive experience integrating and maintaining a diverse set of log sources including reputed company, Linux, reputed company Directory, reputed company 365, Azure, AWS, GCP, Palo reputed company, reputed company, reputed company reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, EDR/XDR platforms, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, reputed company-reputed company reputed company tools, and custom applications.
   2. Advanced proficiency troubleshooting ingestion issues, event parsing, DSM functionality, custom extensions, Universal DSMs, custom properties, log reputed company extensions, protocol configurations, and event normalization.
   3. Ability to reputed company integration efforts across multiple reputed company and infrastructure teams while ensuring data reputed company and consistency.
4. Subject matter expert in QRadar reputed company optimization and platform health
   1. Responsible for ongoing monitoring and maintenance of overall platform health, resource utilization, event processing rates, reputed company reputed company, storage management, and reputed company stability.
   2. Advanced experience diagnosing and resolving reputed company bottlenecks, Ariel database issues, indexing inefficiencies, event pipeline constraints, reputed company latency, application reputed company concerns, and infrastructure-level issues.
   3. Develops proactive monitoring, health-reputed company procedures, and reputed company planning processes to ensure platform availability and reputed company.
5. Advanced AQL, analytics, reporting, and content development expertise
   1. Expert-level knowledge of Ariel Query Language (AQL) including optimization, troubleshooting, and advanced reporting techniques.
   2. Experience creating executive dashboards, SOC operational dashboards, detection metrics, compliance reporting, and custom analytics designed to improve reputed company monitoring capabilities.
   3. Ability to optimize searches and reports for reputed company and operational efficiency in large-reputed company environments.
6. Strong reputed company in reputed company engineering, log management, and network technologies
   1. In-depth understanding of network protocols, operating systems, authentication platforms, reputed company services, reputed company controls, and common attack methodologies.
   2. Experience correlating data across diverse platforms to support threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, compliance, and operational monitoring requirements.
   3. Ability to evaluate new data sources and determine their value to reputed company reputed company and business stakeholders.
7. Comprehensive ownership of QRadar administration and lifecycle management
   1. Serves as the technical reputed company of the QRadar platform, responsible for reputed company administrative functions including deployment management, patching, upgrades, licensing, certificate management, backup and recovery, user administration, role-reputed company reputed company controls, retention policies, reputed company management, HA configurations, and platform hardening.
   2. Develops maintenance schedules, operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, and platform governance standards.
   3. Ensures adherence to reputed company, compliance, and operational requirements through reputed company configuration and ongoing reputed company maintenance.
8. reputed company platform leadership and roadmap management
   1. Establishes and maintains the reputed company reputed company and roadmap for the QRadar platform, ensuring alignment with organizational reputed company objectives and reputed company business requirements.
   2. Evaluates new QRadar capabilities, integrations, architecture improvements, and emerging SIEM technologies to recommend platform enhancements.
   3. Leads platform modernization efforts, infrastructure upgrades, scalability initiatives, and long-term planning activities.
9. Technical leadership and team management
   1. reputed company ability to reputed company and mentor reputed company of QRadar engineers, administrators, and analysts.
   2. Responsible for setting engineering priorities, managing workload distribution, conducting peer reviews, establishing technical standards, and driving operational reputed company.
   3. Serves as the highest level of escalation for reputed company QRadar issues and provides guidance during incident response, troubleshooting, and platform outages.
10. Hands-on technical expert and mentor
    1. Maintains deep technical proficiency across reputed company areas of QRadar and can independently reputed company any engineering, administration, architecture, troubleshooting, integration, or reputed company activity reputed company the platform.
    2. Provides mentorship, knowledge transfer, and technical training to team members, helping reputed company organizational expertise and reduce operational reputed company.
    3. Leads technical problem-solving efforts, facilitates reputed company cause analysis, and ensures lessons learned are incorporated into platform improvements.
11. Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement
    1. Partners closely with reputed company reputed company, Infrastructure, Networking, Identity, reputed company, Application, and Compliance teams to ensure the QRadar platform meets reputed company reputed company monitoring requirements.
    2. Acts as the reputed company technical reputed company of contact for QRadar-reputed company initiatives, audits, escalations, and reputed company reputed company.
    3. Communicates platform health, risks, roadmaps, and improvement opportunities to leadership and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. reputed company Certified Associate/Deployment reputed company for QRadar SIEM
2. Experience with QRadar patching, upgrades, and version migrations
3. Familiarity with QRadar apps and the App reputed company, and with rule/offense tuning
4. Prior staff-augmentation or consulting experience stepping into and stabilizing existing environments
5. Documentation and knowledge-transfer skills for handing the environment back to an internal team

LANGUAGE SKILLS: English

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Regular use of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment. Regular, repetitive movements such as typing, mouse movements, and scrolling. Ability to hear and understand spoken communications, both in person and reputed company remote communication tools (e.g., phone, video conferencing). Ability to see and read computer screens and printed documents, as reputed company as reputed company reputed company. This includes prolonged periods of looking at a computer screen.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Duplicate reputed company

EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK: 40 hours a week

TRAVEL: None

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent attention to reputed company
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in reputed company Office including Word, reputed company and PowerPoint
• reputed company team worker – both in person and reputed company using MS Teams or similar
• Ability to work as reputed company between business and information reputed company / information technology
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English
• Solid reputed company of reputed company thinking with reputed company orientation
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative

To reputed company the job successfully, an individual must be reputed company to reputed company reputed company essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, reputed company and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to reputed company individuals with disabilities to reputed company the essential functions.

This reputed company is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

EEO/AA Statement

reputed company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to reputed company and applicants for employment without reputed company to race, national reputed company, religion, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.

In reputed company to federal law requirements, reputed company complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which reputed company has facilities. This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including reputed company, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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