Senior QRadar Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $80 - $125 / hour

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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New Era Technology

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

New Era Technology is a global technology solutions provider offering a wide range of services and solutions, including cloud services, professional and managed services, cybersecurity, collaboration and unified communications, data networking, digital transformation, and physical security. With a team of engineers, designers, installers, and technicians, New Era Technology collaborates with over 20,000 customers and operates through 80+ offices worldwide. They are recognized as a top integrator for AV and video collaboration and offer industry-specific solutions for sectors such as healthcare, education, government, banking, finance, and retail. New Era Technology aims to help businesses adapt to the rapidly changing digital landscape through innovative technology solutions and customized services.

📋 Description

• Own the overall health and stability of the IBM QRadar deployment, including collection devices, data gateways, and processors • Onboard new log sources and resolve ingestion, parsing, DSM, log source extension, and normalization issues • Investigate and resolve performance issues; tune indices, event/flow throughput, EPS/FPM constraints, searches, and rules • Analyze retained data and reduce, reroute, or drop unnecessary data while preserving security value • Build dashboards and reports and optimize AQL, database queries, and saved searches • Apply software patches and updates • Onboard users, manage access, and develop training materials • Own QRadar architecture and infrastructure, including HA, DR, capacity planning, storage, and EPS/FPM growth • Establish and maintain the QRadar strategic roadmap and evaluate capabilities, integrations, and modernization opportunities • Lead, mentor, and delegate across the SIEM team; set technical direction and serve as escalation point • Partner with Security Operations, Infrastructure, Networking, Identity, Cloud, Application, and Compliance teams • Communicate platform health, risks, roadmaps, and improvement opportunities to leadership and stakeholders • Report to the Engagement Manager • Perform a staff augmentation assignment anticipated to last 3 months, renewable month-to-month

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years in IT Security • Minimum of 5 years of QRadar experience • Hands-on experience as a QRadar engineer or architect operating a production deployment • Working knowledge of QRadar architecture, including Console, Event/Flow Collectors and Processors, Data Nodes, and App Host components • Experience onboarding log sources and troubleshooting log collection, parsing, and normalization, including DSMs, log source extensions, and custom properties • Experience diagnosing and resolving QRadar performance issues, including index management and search/pipeline tuning • Proficiency writing and optimizing AQL and building dashboards, saved searches, and reports • Knowledge of log management, network protocols, and common log source types, including Windows, Linux/syslog, firewalls, and cloud • Understanding of QRadar distributed architectures, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery • Experience planning capacity, storage utilization, EPS/FPM growth, system expansion, and hardware refresh cycles • Experience integrating log sources including Windows, Linux, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, GCP, Palo Alto, Cisco, Check Point, F5, CrowdStrike, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, cloud-native security tools, and custom applications • Knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, authentication platforms, cloud services, security controls, and common attack methodologies • Experience with QRadar administration and lifecycle management, including patching, upgrades, licensing, certificate management, backup and recovery, user administration, RBAC, retention policies, index management, HA, and platform hardening • Ability to lead and mentor QRadar engineers, administrators, and analysts • Excellent documentation skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Strong spoken and written English • Ability to work as a liaison between business and information security/information technology • Regular ability to operate computer equipment and perform prolonged screen-based work • Required education: None • Preferred: IBM Certified Associate/Deployment Professional for QRadar SIEM; QRadar patching, upgrades, and version migrations; QRadar apps/App Framework and rule/offense tuning; staff-augmentation or consulting experience; documentation and knowledge-transfer skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits • Continuous training • Personal and professional development opportunities • Equal employment opportunities • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities