Job Description

Title: Cortex XSIAM

Location: USA Remote

Duration; Full Time 

Experience / Qualifications – Cortex XSIAM

• Exceptional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• hands-on experience deploying and managing SIEM and SOAR solutions in large-scale enterprise environments, including direct experience with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM.
• Proven expertise in onboarding log sources and integrating them into Cortex XSIAM using Broker VMs, XDR Collectors, and custom ingestion methods.
• Proficient in developing and managing XSIAM Data Models, including field mapping, enrichment, normalization, and schema standardization across multiple data sources.
• Strong experience crafting and optimizing detection logic using XQL (XSIAM Query Language) to build high-fidelity correlation rules, dashboards, and proactive threat hunting queries.
• Solid understanding of Palo Alto XDR endpoint integration, sensor health monitoring, and policy tuning for enhanced endpoint visibility.
• Experienced in event collection strategy, log onboarding, log tuning, and normalization to ensure high-quality and actionable data within the XSIAM platform.
• Demonstrated ability to translate security monitoring requirements into use cases and actionable detection content, aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and industry best practices.
• Familiarity with broader SIEM technologies (e.g. Splunk, IBM QRadar) and how they compare/contrast with Cortex XSIAM architecture and capabilities.
• Strong grasp of security operations workflows, alert triage, threat detection, incident response, and automation within XSIAM.
• Hands-on experience creating and managing security dashboards and visualizations to provide meaningful insights for SOC teams and leadership.
• Expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex), JSON parsing, and log analysis to derive context-rich detection strategies.
• Working knowledge of generating performance and health reports across log source status, ingestion rates, data pipeline performance, and detection coverage.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Palo Alto Networks Certified XSIAM Engineer or XSIAM Analyst or XSIAM EDU-270). Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field is a plus.

Activities / Responsibilities – Cortex XSIAM

• Collaborate with technical leads and stakeholders to define and execute a robust log ingestion strategy for Cortex XSIAM using Broker VMs and Collectors.
• Serve as both a Security Analyst and SIEM Engineer, owning end-to-end workflows from data onboarding to detection content development and incident response support.
• Design and implement XQL-based correlation rules to detect and alert on suspicious behavior across endpoint, network, and cloud environments.
• Create, tune, and manage data models to normalize and enrich telemetry data in alignment with Cortex XSIAM’s schema requirements.
• Build operational dashboards using XQL that provide actionable insights into threat posture, detection efficacy, and log source coverage.
• Act as SME for XSIAM log ingestion processes, correlation logic, alert tuning, and detection strategy development.
• Engage directly with end customers to assess their environment, identify visibility gaps, and provide strategic recommendations for log onboarding and threat coverage.
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot log source ingestion pipelines and Collector/Broker VM performance.
• Fine-tune alerts and detections to minimize false positives and improve SOC analyst efficiency.

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Areas of responsibility

Monitoring and Incident Detection-Analyse attack trends and correlate logs across systems to identify advance threats. Enhance monitoring processes and implement improvements for faster detection, to ensure compliance with security frameworks and regulatory standards.

Incident Handling and Analysis-Perform root cause analysis, create incident response plans and implement disaster recovery measures to minimize business disruption

Threat Assessment and Analytics-Undertake forensic analysis using advanced analytics tools and implement mitigation measures to align with compliance requirements.

Stakeholder Coordination and Audit Assistance-"Liaise with cross functional teams, external vendors and auditors to ensure compliance with security frameworks.

Maintain audit documentation and ensure its accuracy while implementing processes that support audit readiness and continuous compliance."

Training and Awareness-Assist in creating and delivering cybersecurity awareness sessions, including guidance on phishing and malicious emails.

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