Cyber Operation SPLUNK Security Consultant - Location Negotiable

Job description

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Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients' needs across their entire value chain. Whether we're defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector's brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

We are currently looking for professionals for our Cyber Operation Resilience Security practice with extensive experience in the following:

Job Description

Security and Risk professionals develop and deliver solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications and data by establishing policies, practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or disruption. Cyber Operation Resilience Security professionals develop and deliver solutions for organizations to gain visibility of security events within their environment. Build new or develop existing event correlation, reporting and remediation capabilities based on advanced monitoring use cases, external threat intelligence, and known traffic patterns. Identity new or develop existing data integration points to build a security data warehouse for the purpose of exploratory analytics. A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:
Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems. Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals. Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems. Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance. Decisions often impact the team in which they reside. Manages small teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

Our consultants assist clients with the identification and evaluation of holistic security gaps with a focus on the infrastructure and business applications layer. They also anticipate security requirements and identify sound security controls for applications, systems, processes and organizations. Our managers can easily work with non-security teams to integrate security controls on projects.

We are currently searching for consultants for our Security Technology practice with prior experience in the following areas: security operations center monitoring, compliance, and infrastructure security skills including SIEM, Network and Security Monitoring skills.

Key Responsibilities may include:
· Develop a comprehensive SIEM and Security Analytics architecture to support real-time security monitoring operations
· Perform as technical lead in the development and delivery of custom content, system integration and event reporting
· Troubleshoot and configure networking devices, various platforms, and database, Windows and/or UNIX system administration
· Build and implement reporting and visualizations to inform and assist clients' incident response teams and security managers
· Contribute to a strong client relationship through interactions with client personnel
· Design, develop and document Security Operations Center Procedures and Processes
· Communicate client expectations to the engagement team
· Travel 80%

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:
·  2+ years Splunk administration (Certified Splunk Administrator preferred)
·  2 or more of the following including SPLUNK (above)
·  2+ years of working with SIEM tools performing deployment, configuration, and maintaining operations, content development
·  2+ years working with security tool administration (e.g. firewalls, IDS, end-point protection, content filtering, IAM, DLP)
·  2+ years working with operational information security disciplines (e.g. incident response, security infrastructure management or monitoring services)

Preferred Skill Requirements:
·  Hands-on Splunk experience, inclusive of:
·  Field extractions, tags, event types, alerts, lookups, and data models
·  Experience creating, updating, and managing notable events
·  Experience working in Incident Review
·  Experience with creating robust reports, notable events
·  Experience with Splunk Search Language
·  Understand dashboards and data collection
·  Experience with Splunk premium apps such as Splunk ES, Cloud or ITSI
·  Statistical and analytical modeling experience
·  Custom use case and content development experience
·  Deep understanding and proven experience in Cyber Security Operations (Monitoring, Detection, Incident Response, Forensics)
·  Project and delivery management experience
·  RFP/RFI Response Knowledge (ability to work and support proposal efforts)
·  Cyber Security experience in complex global enterprise and or Govt. environment a plus


Professional Skill Requirements:
·  Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
·  Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
·  Desire to work in an information systems environment
·  Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.

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