Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Security Tools Engineer at the organization will lead cross‑tool security engineering efforts, diagnosing and closing detection and reporting gaps across multiple platforms. The role involves designing integrations, building detection logic, and supporting automation, threat hunting, and compliance while serving as the primary point of contact for cross‑tool issues.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Lead cross-tool security engineering efforts, advising on best practices for closing detection and reporting gaps that span multiple platforms
- Diagnose and resolve reporting and visibility gaps created when a tool in the environment is deprecated, replaced, or reconfigured — for example, reconstructing lost reporting coverage by combining endpoint telemetry with Splunk data
- Design, implement, and document data flows and integration points across endpoint protection, SIEM, and other security tools supporting the program
- Build and tune detection logic, correlation searches, and dashboards that hold up as individual tools in the stack change, are replaced, or are retired
- Lead the technical transition work when a security tool is deprecated, replaced, or reconfigured, ensuring no loss of detection or reporting coverage
- Integrate tools such as CrowdStrike, Splunk, Cribl, CyberArk, Suricata, Tenable, Tanium, Thales, CASB, Trellix, Axonius, and others to close cross-platform visibility gaps
- Develop automation and correlation workflows using APIs across the security tool stack to reduce manual reporting and analysis work
- Support threat hunting and incident response efforts that require correlating evidence across more than one tool or data source
- Support endpoint and platform security compliance with NIST, FISMA, and agency-specific requirements
- Maintain current, accurate documentation of tool configurations, data flows, and integration architecture across the stack
- Serve as the team's point of contact for cross-tool security engineering issues
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- Ability to attain DHS EOD
- Master's degree or equivalent, plus 12 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated, hands‑on experience across more than one security tool category (endpoint/EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, network detection, or similar)
- Hands‑on experience with an EDR/endpoint platform (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon) — administration, detection engineering, or response
- Hands‑on experience with Splunk (or an equivalent SIEM) — search, correlation searches, and dashboard/reporting development
- Demonstrated experience correlating and integrating data across disparate security platforms to close a visibility, detection, or reporting gap
- Scripting/automation proficiency (Python, PowerShell, or similar) for cross‑tool data pipelines and API integrations
- Experience owning a tool deprecation or migration without losing detection or reporting coverage
- Effective communicator at all levels, both written and verbal
- Professional, customer‑oriented, and even‑keeled under pressure
- Must be able to pass a Federal background investigation - US Citizenship required
- Participation in on‑call rotation for security incident response