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Job Description

A local company is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Engineer to support the design, deployment, and optimization of its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. This is a highly technical, hands-on role requiring deep expertise in log ingestion, parsing, correlation rule development, alert tuning, and system integrations.

The Cybersecurity Engineer will work closely with security leadership, analysts, and infrastructure teams to ensure the SIEM solution delivers meaningful, high-fidelity security insights aligned with operational and risk management goals.

The project timeline may range from 3 to 8 months with the possibility of extension or hire.

Hours

Full-time, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location

Honolulu, Oahu

Pay

$60,000 to $85,000 a year

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and deploy SIEM solutions to support enterprise-wide security monitoring and incident detection.
• Integrate diverse log sources including firewalls, servers, cloud platforms, applications, and endpoint systems.
• Develop, tune, and maintain correlation rules, alerts, dashboards, and reports to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
• Partner with security leadership to define logging requirements, normalization standards, and data retention strategies.
• Collaborate with Security Analysts to ensure SIEM outputs are usable, actionable, and aligned with threat detection and response workflows.
• Develop and maintain documentation and runbooks related to SIEM operations, onboarding, and use-case implementation.
• Monitor SIEM health and performance; troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, and data quality issues.
• Recommend and implement improvements to enhance SIEM efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Support alignment of SIEM architecture with security best practices, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience implementing security engineering or security monitoring solutions.
• Experience working with SIEM platforms and logging tools such as Splunk, Sentinel, Logstash, FluentD/Fluent Bit, or Syslog-based systems.
• Strong understanding of log formats, parsing techniques, and correlation rule development.
• Experience integrating log sources from both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Proficiency in writing detection logic, regular expressions, and SIEM query languages.
• Familiarity with threat modeling concepts and incident response workflows.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and fingerprinting.