
Security Engineer – SIEM
PNC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Pittsburgh • Alabama • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $74,750 - $165,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, engineer, and operate enterprise scale SIEM platforms supporting high volume log ingestion, normalization, correlation, alerting, and long term retention.
- Architect and maintain end to end data onboarding pipelines, including source onboarding, parsing, field extraction, normalization, enrichment, and validation.
- Develop, test, and maintain SIEM detection content, including correlation searches, analytic rules, alerts, and risk based detections.
- Write and optimize advanced search queries to support detections, investigations, dashboards, and threat hunting use cases.
- Build and maintain operational and security dashboards providing visibility into threat activity, platform health, coverage gaps, and detection effectiveness.
- Perform threat analytics and proactive hunting by leveraging SIEM telemetry.
- Partner with SOC and Incident Response teams to investigate alerts, provide deep technical analysis, and improve signal to noise ratio.
- Monitor and tune SIEM platform performance including ingest volume, indexing efficiency, search performance, data retention, and licensing utilization.
- Manage SIEM configuration and content lifecycle through version control, change management, testing, and promotion.
Requirements
- Proven experience with SIEM tools architecture, deployment, and administration.
- Experience in cloud/hybrid environments and multi-cloud integrations.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, MITRE).
- Ability to work cross-functionally and manage customer expectations.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- 5+ years of industry-relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree or comparable combination of education and experience may be considered.
Benefits
- medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- dental and vision options
- employee and spouse/child life insurance
- short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- pension and stock purchase plans
- dependent care reimbursement account
- back-up child/elder care
- adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- a robust wellness program with financial incentives
- maternity and/or parental leave
- up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service
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Hard Skills & Tools
SIEM platformslog ingestiondata onboarding pipelinescorrelation searchesanalytic rulesadvanced search queriesthreat huntingthreat analyticsconfiguration managementversion control
Soft Skills
analytical skillstroubleshooting skillscommunication skillscross-functional collaborationcustomer expectation management
Certifications
Bachelor's degree