Sr. Manager, Splunk Engineering

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

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** Overall Purpose
** The Sr. Manager, Splunk Engineering is pivotal in managing and advancing the organization's logging infrastructure, emphasizing proficiency in Splunk Enterprise and auxiliary logging systems. This role will work closely with stakeholders to gauge and fulfill needs, integrate data sources, and refine the logging for peak operational efficiency and compliance with security mandates. This position is defined by a blend of leadership and direct technical engagement, with expectations to not only guide but also actively partake in technical undertakings and team coordination.
** Essential Functions
*** Mentors and manages the Splunk Engineering team and provides effective leadership to drive a highly engaged, high-performance team.
* Leads the risk and security organization staff to identify, document, architect and develop process efficiencies.
* Maintains an excellent understanding of standard roles, processes and tools utilized within an information security organization.
* Defines, leads, gathers, writes and formalizes process use-cases, functional, and non-functional requirements.
* Communicates and organizes stakeholders and customers within projects to build sustainable solutions with required capabilities.
* Leads, architects, and designs solutions based on project use cases and requirements.
* Leads both the strategic and tactical management of the Splunk Enterprise, Security & User Behavioral Analytic ecosystems, concentrating on data incorporation, system fine-tuning, capacity planning, security and system updates.
* Develops and manages effective monitoring, alerting, and reporting to uphold service level agreements and ensure visibility into system status, usage and security threats.
* Leads efforts to update platforms and apply patches, addressing vulnerabilities and adhering to supported standards.
* Collaborates with other information security departments to augment threat detection capabilities and bolster incident response actions.
* Leads incident management processes, including troubleshooting, resolving outages, and conducting breach investigations.
* Directly engages with end-users for requirements gathering, troubleshooting, and crafting Splunk queries, alerts, reports, and dashboards, ensuring hands-on involvement in technical tasks.
* Produces, updates, and verifies documentation accuracy and relevance for the logging environment.
* Works alongside auditors and fulfills regulatory standards, employing security tools to aid in compliance initiatives.
* Delivers metrics related to platform performance, capacity, and user management, involving direct analysis and refinement efforts.
* Ensures 24x7 operational readiness and swift incident response through participation in an on-call roster.
* Keeps abreast of the latest technologies, trends, and strategies in the field, applying best practices for logging and monitoring.
* Impacts the CSIRTS team to be able to respond to threats by creating, tuning and testing high fidelity rules for our SIEM platform
* Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of detecting threats
* Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
* The above job description is a summary of job responsibilities and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.  Incumbents will follow instructions and perform tasks and other duties as assigned by their manager.
** Minimum Qualifications
*** Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Security, Engineering, or Math.
* Minimum 10 years of…