Cybersecurity Wazuh SIEM Engineer

The Cybersecurity SIEM Engineer will serve as a key member of the Cybersecurity Threat & Vulnerability team, supporting a 24x7x365 environment to detect, analyze, and respond to security threats across enterprise systems. The role involves real-time monitoring of network traffic and SIEM alerts (with emphasis on Wazuh SIEM), conducting incident investigations, and contributing to threat mitigation strategies and response protocols. The engineer will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop and enforce cybersecurity policies, analyze malicious activities, and support compliance efforts in both cloud and hybrid environments. Strong knowledge of attack methods, network protocols, and threat intelligence, combined with expertise in incident response, forensic analysis, and regulatory compliance, is essential for success in this position.

**US Citizen or Green Card Required

WORKSITE/WORK SCHEDULE: Remote is acceptable - must work Pacific Time hours

PAY RATE: $70/hour

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Paid sick leave based on state regulations after 90 days of employment

• Medical, dental, and vision are offered after a waiting period (60% paid by Fortuna)

• Free TeleMedicine and Mental Health for all employees and their families

• Additional volunteer options such as Group Life Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Critical Care, Short Term Disability

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.

• Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.

• Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.

• Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

• Monitor and analyze Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alerts to identify security issues for remediation and investigate events and incidents.

• Provide response, technical assistance and expertise for significant cyber incidents, investigations, and related operational events.

• Contribute to security policies, procedures, and documentation.

• Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.

• Analyze network events to determine impact.

• Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.

• Coordinate during all cyber incidents.

• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.

• Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.

• Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.

• Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, and system configuration) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.

• Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support incident response.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Demonstrated intermediate-to-advance subject matter expertise and operating experience with Wazuh SIEM

• Possess ONE of the following certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP CE, CCNP Security, CISA, GCED, GCIH, GCFA, GSLC, CEH, CFR, CySA+

• Experience with Security Operations Center, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.

• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

• Knowledge of traditional computing technologies architecture, design, and security.

• Expertise in usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle and how it applies to cloud, legacy, and hybrid environments.

• Ability to identify remediation steps for cybersecurity events.

• Demonstrated ability to utilize and leverage host-based tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.

• Demonstrated strong organizational skills.

• Can analyze common encoding and obfuscation types (Base64, Caesar cipher, junk data, etc) and recognize advance types (XOR, AES, etc)

• Can examine and investigate common packet traffic and protocols.

• Can analyze common attack types (Cross-site scripting, directory traversal, denial of service, etc) and identify more advanced types (Ex. novel CVE related attacks)

• Proven ability to operate in a time sensitive environment.

• Proven ability to communicate orally and written.

• Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.

• Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of network architecture, design, and security.

• Ability to analyze static and dynamic malware analysis reports.

• Ability to analyze and identify anomalous code as malicious or benign.

• Skill in detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.

• Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files.

• Skill in conducting trend analysis.

• Knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures.

• Knowledge of different classes of attacks (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distribution attacks).

• Knowledge of cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state sponsored, and nation sponsored).

• Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).

• Knowledge of system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.

• Knowledge of packet-level analysis using appropriate tools.

• Knowledge of intersection of on-prem and cloud-based technologies.

• Knowledge of system design and process methodologies.

• Ability to coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.

• Experience to assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.

Fortuna operates as a staffing agency that sources screens and presents potential candidates for employment opportunities on behalf of our clients.

Fortuna was founded in 2012 by practicing professionals with more than 50 combined years of experience. Our headquarters is in McClellan, California with offices in Los Angeles and New York, and satellite offices in the Philippines and Israel. Fortuna is an active member of multiple California service agreements, including the CMAS, ITMSA (Tier 2), and CalPERS SpringFed Pool, as well as multiple municipalities and large corporation vendor pools

Career Site: www.gofortuna.com.