Security Engineer

Summary

Join Experian as a Security Engineer, reporting to the SRE Manager. You will collaborate with various internal teams, leveraging your information security expertise in incident response and SIEM log analysis. Key responsibilities include understanding and improving security tool data feeds, creating and maintaining SIEM use cases, identifying and addressing vulnerabilities, and participating in root cause analysis. This remote US-based role requires 5+ years of security engineering or SRE experience, strong Terraform skills, CI/CD pipeline experience, and programming/scripting proficiency. Experian offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in security engineering or site reliability engineering
• Excellent Terraform skills required
• Experience working with and developing CI/CD pipelines for Infrastructure as Code required
• Knowledge of programming/scripting fundamentals (python/golang) required
• Expertise in performing ETL onboarding for diverse log feed technologies required
• Experience supporting a Splunk platform administration, new content dashboards, applications, and use cases
• Hands on experience developing Rest API's to capture data from external sources
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Understanding of multiple log formats and source data for SIEM Analysis
• Solid background with Windows and Linux platforms (security or system administration)
• Experience with technical concepts including networking and several cyber attacks

Responsibilities

• Understand data feeds of multiple security tools and logs that feed the SIEM & UEBA technologies. Identify capabilities and quality of these feeds and recommend improvements
• Create new content use cases based on threat intelligence, analyst feedback, available log data, and previous incidents
• Perform daily activities of the content life cycle, including creating new use cases, testing content; tuning, and removing content; and maintain associated documentation
• Improve vulnerabilities in the different application environments
• Work with the other security teams and product SMEs to identify gaps within the existing capability
• Develop parsers/field extractions to facilitate reliable content development
• Develop custom scripts to enhance default SIEM functionality
• Participate in root cause analysis on security incidents and provide recommendations for new data sources and enrichment

Benefits

• This role is remote from within the US
• Great compensation package and bonus plan
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays