Certified Security Engineer; XCSE – SOC

An advanced position within XeneX, this position requires an extensive knowledge of the monitoring and operational practices as well as an advanced understanding of all the underlying technologies and applications based on XeneX cybersecurity platform.

The Certified Security Engineer builds on the skills and requirements of a Analyst position by adding the skills and responsibilities required for the installation, configuration, event escalation, and other advanced skills associated with the XeneXSOC infrastructure and deployments. It also requires a more advanced knowledge of networking technologies than the previous position would as it serves as escalation for that level.

This is an advanced position within XeneX, as it requires and extensive knowledge of the basic monitoring and operational practices as well as an advanced understanding of all the underlying technologies out applications are based upon. In addition the position requires an advanced understanding of network security and engineering concepts.

This position would report to the Senior Certified Engineer for his group of engineers or Security Operations Manager for the data center and will be responsible for resolving event escalations as well and installation, configuration, and troubleshooting all deployed systems.

• Monitoring tasks
• Assist Tier 1 in resolving anything they cannot
• Advanced event analysis and behavioral concerns
• Determining importance of event categories
• Policy determination and creation.
• Report customization and troubleshooting
• Create integrated tools settings and job activities
• Create and manage web GUI user accounts
• Asset discovery and groups creation
• Packet captures and advanced protocol analysis
• Create and manage multi-tenancy components
• Collection components creation and management
• Database related tasks
• System
• Backup management
• Determine excessive resource concerns
• Command line configuration
• Service management
• SCP access for file maintenance
• Disk Maintenance tasks, clear old or outdated logs or files
• Verify log rotations
• Conf file access and modification
• Plugin creation and management
• Cron job creation and troubleshooting
• Log rotation setup and troubleshooting.
• Resolution of all issues or pass to developers for bug fixes.

• Tier 2 or higher support
• Pre-Sales technical support
• Backup to Tier 1 or admin/analysts
• Full system access.
• Customer facing for incident information
• XeneXSOC installation and setup
• XeneXSOC configuration changes
• Training documentation and delivery

• Experience with SIEM and Log management technologies
• Experience in cross platform systems engineering.
• Microsoft Windows
• Cisco
• Experience with VMware virtualization platforms.
• Network design and topology
• Knowledge of firewalls and intermediate systems
• ACLs
• Ability to author technical documentation
• Engineer advanced level professional certification
• Understanding of change control methodology.
• Advanced understanding of network security
• Understanding of hacking techniques and prevention.
• Understanding of Forensic Analysis
• Analytical Research capability
• Buck stops here” mentality
• Ability to identify the root causes of issues versus its symptoms
• Packet capture and protocols

• Bachelors degree or appropriate level of professional certification in systems engineering.
• 5+years of relevant systems administration experience.
• Unified Cybersecurity. Proactive Protection. Complete Peace of Mind.