Cybersecurity Engineer II | SIEM and EDR

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Position Purpose:
The Home Depot is seeking a highly motivated Cybersecurity Engineer II with expertise in SIEM and EDR platforms such as Cortex XSIAM, Splunk, CrowdStrike, or similar technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing security monitoring and endpoint detection capabilities to enhance the organization's threat detection and response posture. You will develop and fine-tune detection use cases, create automation and correlation logic, investigate complex security challenges, and collaborate closely with SOC, Cyber Resiliency, and engineering teams to improve visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen cybersecurity operations. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with an analytical mindset and a passion for advancing detection capabilities and operational excellence.

Maintain day-to-day operational health of EDR and SIEM infrastructure

Conduct research to baseline normal activity and tune out noise from alerting

Tune security use cases to provide high fidelity alerts

Collaborate to develop new, custom security use cases, log correlations, and detection rules

Apply event data to existing security use cases and models

Develop and configure dashboards for monitoring event trends and alerts

Configure reporting to provide key metrics and trends

Collaborate with external teams to onboard new data sources to SIEM

Validate appropriate extraction, parsing, and formatting in event data

Write custom field extractions in RegEx

Perform troubleshooting and break/fix efforts during service disruptions

Configure AV exceptions and blocks

Maintain updated service documentation

Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Skills:

2+ years of cyber security work experience

1+ years of SIEM or EDR specific work experience with platforms such as Cortex XSIAM, Splunk, CrowdStrike, etc.

Good understanding of networking infrastructure concepts, technologies, and protocols

Capable of identifying gaps in logging/monitoring/endpoint protection and recommending solutions

Able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical constituents

Solid people, team, and communication skills

Preferred Skills:

Security+ and SIEM Vendor Certification (any vendor) and EDR Vendor Certification (any vendor) or equivalent certifications

Incident Response / SOC work experience

Experience working with cloud-based solutions, such as Azure, GCP

Experience with Linux/Unix Administration

Experienced with writing formal reports

Key Responsibilities:
100% Deliver Execution & Problem Solving - Collaborate with Enterprise Technology to configure and integrate cybersecurity systems that mitigate risk; Troubleshoot and quickly resolve escalated incidents; Design, build, configure, maintain, monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management; Coordinate integration and collaboration with managed security providers; Investigate and recommend corrective actions related to incidents

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager

This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:
No travel required.

Physical Requirements:
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Minimum Education:
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:
2+

Competencies:

Action Oriented

Collaborates

Communicates Effectively

Customer Focus

Drives Results

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
The pay range for this position is between $90,000.00 - $130,000.00Originally posted on Himalayas