Systems Engineer II (Cybersecurity Engineer - SIEM)

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Nielsen is the industry’s most trusted data analytics solution for video content across all platforms and devices. We follow modern security practices to uphold the privacy and security of all our data and systems.

We're protecting tens of thousands of endpoints across multiple cloud and on premise environments. As a Cybersecurity Engineer you'll have the opportunity to work with industry leading technologies at scale to protect our products from an always evolving threat landscape. This hands-on position will be responsible for our end-to-end endpoint security controls and collaborate with other cross-functional teams to ensure central cybersecurity solutions are effective and in alignment with Nielsen’s strategic goals.

Nielsen provides all its employees with opportunities for education & training, including reimbursement for certification or degree programs and the chance to attend training conferences. We also provide an unlimited PTO program and advancement opportunities along a technical or managerial path of your preference.

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for the design, build, configuration and maintenance for internal cybersecurity functions including: SIEM, monitoring, technology integrations, infrastructure & configuration as code, and ETL.

Provide cybersecurity guidance on the strategy, implementation, and maintenance of technologies including but not limited to: SIEM, SOAR, and UBA.

Utilize SIEM to ingest, enrich, and tune data that will provide value to the Cybersecurity Incident Response team.

Discover opportunities and implement automation to drive efficiencies across technologies and processes within cybersecurity engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence.

Collaborate with stakeholders within the cybersecurity team to develop dashboards, reports, alerts, and tools to meet requirements.

Collaborate with technology teams to ensure systems and services are appropriately configured for monitoring, alerting, and reporting.

Report, investigate when appropriate, and recommend corrective actions for cybersecurity incidents.

Advise incident responders on actions necessary to investigate and resolve cybersecurity incidents.

Remain current on cybersecurity technology, vulnerabilities, attacks, and countermeasures.

Review performance, availability, and capacity metrics of internally and externally hosted services and service components to compare with service agreements.

Troubleshoot escalated cybersecurity endpoint, data, and network problems.

Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade cybersecurity measures to protect enterprise data and infrastructure.

Qualifications

With your problem-solving abilities and strong understanding of cybersecurity, you can help Nielsen stay on the forefront of the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

You are proactive in finding and correcting issues, and in looking for ways to maximize effectiveness of existing technologies.

It is important to you to stay current on vulnerabilities, exploits, and the expanding cyber-attack surface (cloud services, remote work, IoT, supply chain).

You approach challenges from new perspectives and develop effective solutions for unique problems.

You appreciate the importance of operations as an enabler for incremental development and can effectively prioritize and perform work with autonomy.

You look for opportunities to drive efficiency via automation and collaboration.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Information Systems or Cybersecurity related discipline; or 5 years of direct cybersecurity experience

Experience with a variety of operating systems including Windows, Linux and UNIX in a functional capacity

Experience with SIEM, SOAR, UBA, XDR

Knowledge of cloud computing standards and controls (AWS,GCP, Azure)

Advanced scripting/ automation experience (Python, Shell, Bash, Ansible)

Experience providing and validating security requirements related to information system design, implementation and business processes

Knowledge of common information security standards, such as: ISO, CIS, NIST

Ability to work both independently and as part of a team with minimal supervision

Ability to communicate technical details in a clear, understandable manner

Security certification such as SANS/GIAC, CISSP, CEH, OSCP

Additional Information

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