Security Monitoring Engineer

**Company Description**

**Hitachi Solutions is a global solutions integrator passionate about designing, developing, and delivering cutting edge cloud solutions to help our clients innovative across their entire business. Our firm develops the business services and technology powering some of the products you use every day - and is closely aligned with Microsoft and other leaders in the cloud computing space.**

**What sets Hitachi Solutions apart is both our industry focus, and the intellectual property that we bring to our customers. Recognized for our achievements year after year, we strive to be the trusted advisor of large and medium sized enterprises alike - helping them move fast to achieve strategic business initiatives with distinguished engineering, hard work, and compassion. With over 3,000 team members across 14 countries, in our 18 years of focus our company has seen explosive growth and high customer satisfaction. This has allowed us to offer exceptionally compelling salaries, 401k match, family leave, and health benefits. And no - we will not make you come into an office or ask for an inflexible work schedule.**

**A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world's largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies**

**As a Security Monitoring Engineer, you will play a vital role in safeguarding our clients Azure network infrastructure and data from security threats, breaches, and cyberattacks. You will be responsible for implementing, managing, and monitoring various security measures to ensure the security and availability of the systems. Your expertise will be crucial in identifying vulnerabilities, proactively mitigating risks, and responding to security incidents swiftly and effectively. You are able to respond to security alerts and clearly articulate what triggered the alert, why, and what action was taken in response. You demonstrate complete ownership of tasks, unmitigated curiosity, and a strong desire for continuous improvement to keep up with the ever-changing security landscape. You are obsessed with delivering maximum value to your clients and empower and lead others to fully realize positive user and business outcomes.**

**Responsibilities**
- **Monitor and respond to security alerts for multiple customers from various Microsoft tools**:

- **Work directly with customers, responding to their Azure and security-related questions**:

- **Deploy and maintain customer security tools, including updating and deploying new Microsoft Sentinel rules, making configuration changes in Azure and M365, and deploying new Sentinel workspaces**:

- **Assist with vulnerability management duties: reviewing vulnerability scan reports, updating software, securing OS-level configurations, and searching for vulnerabilities in customer environments**:

- **Help support customers' Azure environments, including general Azure infrastructure support and maintenance, security configurations, and occasional Windows Server support**:

- **Work primarily within the ticketing system and track time worked for each customer**:

- **Occasional on-call rotation**

**Qualifications**
- **3 - 5 years of overall technology experience focused on Windows Server, Cloud Infrastructure, and/or IT Security.**:

- **1+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure (Networking/Infrastructure preferred).**:

- **1+ years of experience with any security tool, responding to security incidents and alerts.**:

- **General knowledge of security tools, including SIEM, WAF, IPS/IDS, etc.**:

- **Experience with Kusto (KQL) or Splunk query writing, or an equivalent query language.**:

- **Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.**:

- **Experience with Microsoft security tools, including Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and M365 security tools preferred.**:

- **General experience with administering Azure AD and Microsoft 365 is strongly preferred.**:

- **Experience with Linux operating systems is optional but preferred.**:

- **Experience with PowerShell scripting is recommended.**

**We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.**

**Additional Information**

**All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.**

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