Security Architect - Consultant

west columbia, united states | posted on 11/04/2026

• actual job title security architect - consultant
• job type ft contract
• contract duration 1 year
• date opened 11/04/2026
• target date 11/10/2026
• city west columbia
• state/province south carolina
• country united states
• number of positions 1

mandatory screening requirements: these requirements are strictly enforced and non-negotiable. No exceptions can be granted. Candidates who cannot pass these requirements will not be eligible for hire. All applicants must successfully pass a full credit check and criminal background check during the initial hiring process. Once onboard, they must obtain and retain annual cjis certification as part of the ongoing employment process.

other: this position is 100% remote and will participate in a monthly on-call rotation supporting the 24x7 soc. After-hours maintenance, incident escalation support and operational handoffs may be required as needed.

daily duties / responsibilities:

this position is 100% remote and will participate in a monthly on-call rotation supporting a 24x7 security operations center serving multiple state agencies. Other after-hours work may be required as needed.

primarily assist in the planning, design, deployment, administration and operational support of enterprise siem and xdr capabilities, including:

palo alto cortex xsiam and cortex xdr platform engineering, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting

multi-tenant agency onboarding, tenant-specific configuration, role-based access, data segregation, dashboards and reporting

detection engineering, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, watchlists, suppression logic and false-positive reduction

secondarily assist in the planning, design, deployment and operational support of log management and security data pipelines, including:

cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, routing, parsing, normalization, enrichment, filtering, replay and ingestion

onboarding and health monitoring of cloud, endpoint, network, identity, saas and custom application telemetry

log volume, retention, performance and cost optimization while maintaining security and compliance requirements

integrations with ticketing, case management, notification, identity, threat intelligence and other enterprise systems as needed

develop, test, deploy and maintain automated response workflows and playbooks for enrichment, triage, containment, escalation, notifications, case management and incident response.

create and maintain operational runbooks, standard operating procedures, escalation matrices, troubleshooting guides, architecture diagrams, data-flow documentation, use-case catalogs and analyst knowledge articles.

support tier 1 through tier 3 soc analysts and incident responders through platform troubleshooting, detection tuning, threat hunting, technical escalation, knowledge transfer and shift handoffs.

monitor and report on ingestion health, platform availability, alert volumes, detection coverage, false positives, service levels, mean time to detect, mean time to respond and tenant-specific operational metrics.

ensure high availability, resilience, backup, recovery, lifecycle management and controlled change processes for siem, xdr and supporting log pipeline services.

collaborate with security architects, engineers, analysts and agency stakeholders to align solutions with business goals, industry-standard frameworks, regulatory requirements and organizational risk tolerance.

experience engineering and supporting siem capabilities for multi-tenant environments and 24x7 security operations center operations.

experience developing and tuning detections, correlation rules, analytics, threat-hunting queries, dashboards, reporting and alert suppression logic.

strong experience creating and managing complex playbooks

cribl data modeling, log pipeline design, parsing, normalization, enrichment, routing and ingestion.

experience developing automation, integrations, playbooks and response workflows using scripting languages such as python and bash.

experience onboarding and troubleshooting telemetry from cloud, endpoint, network, identity, saas, linux, windows and custom application sources.

strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure system design and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.

hands-on experience operating cortex xsiam and cortex xdr in a large, multi-tenant environment.

hands-on cribl administration, data modeling and…