Security Engineer – Security Operations Center (REF4455F)

Company Description

As Hungary’s most attractive employer in 2025 (according to Randstad’s representative survey), Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. The company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5300 employees. We have hundreds of large customers, corporations in Germany and in other European countries. 
DT-ITS recieved the Best in Educational Cooperation award from HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as the the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Job Description

We are looking for a skilled and security-minded Security Engineer to support and enhance our logging and monitoring capabilities within the Security Operations Center. You will play a critical role in designing and maintaining our logging infrastructure, ensuring visibility across systems, and aligning with compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 and DINS2.

As part of a cross-functional team, you will contribute to the creation of an effective logging concept, define what data needs to be collected, how it should be processed and stored, and ensure proper integration with our existing security architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and improve security logging concepts and strategies
• Analyze and assess existing logging systems and propose improvements
• Integrate and maintain systems for centralized log collection and processing
• Work with Elastic Stack technologies (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) for log management
• Interpret and analyze security logs, events, and incidents in coordination with the SOC team
• Ensure logging solutions meet compliance and regulatory requirements (ISO 27001, DINS2)
• Collaborate with system owners to onboard new log sources and fine-tune log formats
• Write and maintain clear documentation in English
• Support incident response and forensic analysis through effective log availability

Qualifications

Hard Skills:

• Experience working in a SOC environment or in a security monitoring/analysis role
• Strong understanding of logging technologies, ideally including:
  • Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats)
• Familiarity with security logs and event types (e.g., firewall, endpoint, application logs)
• Knowledge of compliance standards and logging requirements (ISO 27001, DINS2)
• Ability to design logging strategies:
  • What to log, how to process logs, and where/how long to store them
• Experience with the technical integration of log sources (e.g., via syslog, APIs, agents)
• Basic scripting or automation knowledge (e.g., Bash, Python) is a plus

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team
• Structured approach to documentation and knowledge sharing
• English proficiency required; German skills are a plus

Nice to Have:

• Experience with SIEM systems (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel or similar)

Additional Information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.