Security Consultant - XSIAM Administration and Cybersecurity Operations

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XSIAM Admin Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. Your role and responsibilities As a Security Consultant specializing in Intelligence \& Operations, you play a crucial role in helping Client IT understand and address key security issues, exposures, and vulnerabilities. Your expertise in security intelligence and operations enables you to articulate effective security strategies and mitigation measures. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop Security Strategies: Apply security principles, counter-threat intelligence, and knowledge of security intelligence and operations to develop and recommend effective security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures. • Enhance Security Posture: Utilize proactive threat hunting and intelligence-driven defense strategies to enhance Client IT's security posture. • Articulate IBM's SIOC and SIEM: Clearly communicate IBM's Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) points of view, including financial implications. • Leverage Threat Intelligence: Apply hands-on experience with tools like QRadar to analyze and mitigate various cyber threats. • Collaborate with Clients: Work closely with Client IT to understand their security needs and deliver tailored security solutions. Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise • Security Intelligence Knowledge: Exposure to security intelligence and operations, including security principles and counter-threat intelligence, to develop effective security strategies and mitigation measures. • Threat Analysis Experience: Hands-on experience with tools like QRadar to analyze and mitigate various cyber threats. • Security Strategy Development: Experience working with security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures to address key security issues and vulnerabilities. • Security Posture Enhancement: Exposure to proactive threat hunting and intelligence-driven defense strategies to enhance security posture. • Security Solution Delivery: Experience working with clients to understand their security needs and deliver tailored security solutions. Managing the XSIAM platform lifecycle Ensuring data ingestion, normalization, and availability Supporting SOC teams with a stable, optimized, and scalable environment Maintaining integrations, automation, and system health Configure and maintain: XSIAM tenant settings User roles \& RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) Data retention policies Manage: Multi-tenant setups (if applicable) Data privacy and access controls Onboard and integrate log sources: Firewalls (Palo Alto NGFW) Endpoints (Cortex XDR Agents) Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) Identity providers (Azure AD) Ensure: Proper log parsing \& normalization Schema mapping (XSIAM data models) Troubleshoot: Missing logs Parsing errors Data delays or ingestion failures Monitor and optimize: Data ingestion pipelines Storage utilization Query performance Tune data to: Reduce noise Improve signal-to-noise ratio Manage: Hot/cold storage tiers (if applicable) Deploy and maintain: Detection rules Correlation policies Assist SOC / Detection Engineers in: Testing detection logic Troubleshooting rule performance Reduce: False positives / false negatives Configure and maintain: Cortex XSIAM playbooks (SOAR capabilities) Integrate: APIs with third-party tools (ticketing, EDR, IAM) Ensure: Playbooks execute reliably Automation reduces manual effort Create and manage: User accounts Roles and permissions Enforce: Least privilege access Secure authentication (SSO, MFA) Continuously monitor: Platform performance Integration status Agent health (XDR agents) Identify and resolve: Connectivity issues System errors Perform: Routine health checks and audits Preferred technical and professional experience • Hands-on QRadar Experience: Exposure to utilizing QRadar for analyzing and mitigating various cyber threats, enhancing security posture through proactive threat hunting and intelligence-driven defense strategies. • Cyber Threat Knowledge: Familiarity with various cyber threats, including understanding of security intelligence and operations to develop effective security strategies and mitigation measures. • Financial Implication Understanding: Exposure to articulating financial implications of security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures, including IBM's SIOC and SIEM points of view. Years of Experience: 5 - 8 ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet. YOUR LIFE @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.