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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate Engineer, Security Data Pipeline to join our Digital Nexus Technology organization. This is a remote work opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain Data Pipelines for collecting, processing, and analyzing security-related data from various sources; apply best practices for data integrity, reliability, and scalability in the Security Data Pipeline
- Integrate diverse Security Data sources, including logs, events, and alerts, into the Data Pipeline; collaborate with cybersecurity teams to understand data requirements and ensure the pipeline meets the needs of the organization
- Implement data transformation and enrichment processes to enhance the quality and context of Security Data; work closely with security analysts to understand data enrichment requirements for effective threat analysis
- Enact monitoring mechanisms to track the performance and efficiency of the Security Data Pipeline; optimize the pipeline continuously to accommodate increasing data volumes and evolving security requirements; collaborate with end-users to ensure data collected is data desired and parsed accordingly to minimize unnecessary license cost
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of the Security Data Pipeline architecture, configurations, and processes; generate regular reports on the performance of the pipeline, data quality, and incidents detected
- Ensure that the Security Data Pipeline complies with relevant security standards, regulations, and industry best practices; collaborate with compliance teams to implement necessary controls and reporting mechanisms
Qualifications:
- Minimum three years of recent experience in Data Pipeline development with a focus on Security Data; minimum three years of recent experience using Cribl to collect, reduce, enrich, normalize and route data
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, information security, or a related field is preferred; relevant certifications in cybersecurity or data engineering is preferred
- Strong programming and scripting skills (for example, Python and SQL) for data processing and automation
- Experience with big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark, for large-scale data processing; experience with agent-based data collection, cloud to cloud, syslog (unstructured data), and REST API
- Familiarity with the following: cloud platforms and services like AWS, Azure, and GCP; Azure infrastructure, Log Analytics, Sentinel, and Event Hub; Datadog (or similar) integrations using agent deployments, API, and syslog collection
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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