Principal Exabeam Engineer | Remote, USA

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.  

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Exabeam Engineer to join our IT/Security Operations team. The Principal Exabeam Engineer will be responsible for the architecture, deployment, maintenance, and tuning of both cloud and on-premises Exabeam environments. This role will play a crucial part in security operations, helping to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of Exabeam deployment in monitoring and securing client IT infrastructure. The primary focus for this role is to act as a Subject Matter Expert for Exabeam and be able to configure, manage, operate and administrate the platform for managed SIEM AND Advanced Analytics. The Principal Exabeam Engineer is a member of the Advanced Fusion Center (AFC) team, and will be responsible for following Optiv AFC processes & procedures, as well as managing and maintaining security systems across internal and client environments. The Principal Exabeam Engineer will work closely with client Management, Solution Architects, Security Engineers from other internal teams and clients to complete high profile, critical services to existing AFC clients. They will serve as a primary responder for AFC customer systems, taking ownership of client configuration issues, and tracking through resolution.   

Applicants should have a comprehensive understanding of security technologies, including cloud technologies (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure), have extensive experience interacting with customers and have a solid understanding of information security and networking. Providing SIEM management solutions tailored to the needs of clients. Additionally, this position acts as an escalation point for critical and complex client issues, performs configuration and testing of products, assists with the development of work processes, and trains other team members.   

How you'll make an impact 

• Maintain Exabeam deployments in both on-prem environments and cloud-based environments across multiple availability zones 

• Build, maintain, tune and otherwise enhance correlation rules and advanced analytics rules to meet client requirements 

• Ensure the Exabeam deployment continues to run under optimal conditions  

• Evaluate existing Exabeam infrastructure, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security and administration  

• Maintain appropriate infrastructure to maintain performance and data integrity  

• Keep Exabeam infrastructure upgraded (as permitted by the applications reliant on them)  

• Manage scalability requirements to meet development and/or business needs  

• Optimize indexes to meet business needs  

• Troubleshoot various issues exhibited by Exabeam infrastructure 

• Work closely with architecture, engineering and development and operations teams and jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability  

• Ensure security of Exabeam cluster  

• Follow and implement Exabeam best practices  

• Ensure appropriate monitoring & alerting of Exabeam component health 

What we're hiring for  

• In-Depth knowledge of Exabeam architecture and Cloud operations, and a detailed understanding of computer and network security  

• 7+ year experience with Exabeam Administration and/or thought leadership 

• Direct experience maintaining and integrating Exabeam SOAR within an operational enterprise information system  

• Proficiency with MS Office and Internet Navigation required.   

• Excellent written and ver