IT SECURITY ENGINEER (SPLUNK)

Job CodeJOB - 003

Posted on13-Mar-2018

LocationSaudi Arabia

Summary of job description

Professional Services Security Consultants (Splunk specialization) fuel solutions to ensure enterprise security deployments make the deepest impact possible across an organization. Splunk consultants solve organizations’ most challenging problems, including the ones they didn't know existed. Splunkers are self-motivated, have an insatiable thirst to learn new technologies and thrive in a fast paced environment. Successful Splunk consultants feel comfortable mastering new technologies and come from a variety of business, analytic and technology backgrounds.

Detailed responsibilities

  • Drive complex security focused deployments of Splunk while working side by side with the customers to solve their unique problems across a variety of use cases
  • Work with our customers to understand their security posture and requirements
  • Support our security deployments by unlocking the potential of Splunk to assist our customers in achieving their Cyber Security strategy 
  • Collaborate across the entire Splunk value chain to bring access to product and technical teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive innovation gathered from customer input
  • Leverage previous experiences, share best practices and create innovative solutions to push user adoption and maximize the value of Splunk
  • Enable customers to solve the next wave of questions on their own

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelors or Masters with 5+ years of experience in implementing security technologies.
  • 3-5 years of hands on experience with security monitoring tools such as IDP/IDS, FW and AV (Cisco IDS, Snort, Bro, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, McAfee, Symantec)
  • Experience in the use of network monitoring tools with a strong understanding of network protocols
  • Ability to perform security analysis, development and implementation of security policies, standards and guidelines
  • Ability to quickly explore, examine and understand complex security problems and how it affects a customer’s business
  • Experience with both the Linux operating systems; the command line interface is your second home
  • Experience with scripting languages (Perl, Python, Bash), databases and analytical tools is a plus
  • Ability to listen and collaborate with audiences ranging from IT administrators to executive level stakeholders to help deliver solutions

 

Other requirements

  • Language: English (essential), Arabic (optional)
  • Self-motivated and self-educating, yet willing and able to work collaboratively with both customers and fellow engineers
  • Well organized with a healthy sense of urgency; able to set, communicate and meet aggressive deadlines with competing priorities

 

Compensation package

Competitive

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