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Senior Security Data Engineer (SIEM & Telemetry) (A)

For one of our clients, we are seeking a highly experienced Senior Security Data Engineer (SIEM & Telemetry) (A) to strengthen their Team in Zurich. 

Description

Tasks

• Architect, operate, and continuously improve centralized logging and SIEM platforms with a focus on high availability, performance, and scalability
• Design, build, and maintain telemetry and data pipelines for routing, enrichment, filtering, and multi-destination delivery of log data
• Develop and operationalize SOAR workflows to automate security operations and accelerate incident response
• Create and maintain monitoring, detection content, reports, and dashboards to provide actionable security insights
• Integrate new data sources and ensure data quality in collaboration with security, infrastructure, and application teams
• Contribute to the expansion of the security data ecosystem, including early observability use cases
• Maintain technical documentation such as architecture descriptions, runbooks, and data flow diagrams
• Coordinate resolution of security-related platform incidents with internal stakeholders and external vendors
• Define and improve architecture, standards, and best practices for logging and telemetry
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support, including participation in on-call rotation

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM platforms
• Experience developing detection content, correlation searches, dashboards, and data models
• Strong experience with data pipelines and log routing infrastructure (e.g. Cribl or similar tools)
• Practical scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash/Shell, or JavaScript)
• Experience with GIT, SQL, REST APIs, and regular expressions
• Understanding of SOAR platforms and security operations automation
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible is a plus
• Experience in regulated environments, ideally financial services
• Fluent in English
• German is a plus

Soft Skills

• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking abilities
• Structured and goal-oriented working style
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to different stakeholders
• Strong team player with cross-functional collaboration skills
• Innovative mindset with the ability to challenge existing solutions
• Strong willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies