Remote Senior Security Logging Engineer

Description:

• The Senior Security Logging Engineer at GitLab will be responsible for leading the architectural direction, administration, maintenance, documentation, and oversight of the Security information and event management (SIEM) solution.
• They will create and maintain integrations and solutions for log collection, aggregation, indexing, and alerting.
• The role involves building and maintaining Fluentd based log filtering pipelines and managing the implementation, enhancement, and adoption of solutions into operations.
• The engineer will utilize log ingestion platforms for security analytics and identification of tactics, techniques, and patterns of attackers.
• Responsibilities also include collecting and reviewing security logs from various systems, ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements, contributing to the creation of runbooks, and developing automation to support processes.
• The engineer will manage log ingestion capacity and costs, perform log analysis and review in support of Security Operations, and build security tools to enable the GitLab Security Team to operate efficiently.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of technical experience in information security with a focus on security log analysis, incident response, SOC, or security engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience administering Splunk SIEM Technologies, with Devo expertise preferred.
• Experience with log analysis systems and an engineer, not an analyst mindset.
• At least 3 years of technical experience and knowledge of Linux tools/architecture and logging systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with log identification and analysis within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Ruby on Rails or Python.
• Experience deploying and maintaining log filtering technologies like Fluentd.

Benefits:

• GitLab offers benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
• The position provides an all-remote, asynchronous work environment.
• Flexible Paid Time Off is available for the Senior Security Logging Engineer.
• Team Member Resource Groups are accessible for support and inclusion.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan are part of the benefits package.
• A Growth and development budget is provided for continuous learning and improvement.
• Parental leave is offered to support work-life balance.
• Home office support is available to ensure a comfortable and productive remote working environment.