SIEM Engineer (QRadar) | Contract | £600 - £750 per day | Inside IR35

We’re looking for an experienced QRadar SIEM Engineer to join a leading insurer on an initial 6 month contract.

You’ll lead the onboarding, tuning and secure operation of their QRadar log ingestion environment, with a focus on reliable, load-balanced, high-availability log collection.

What you’ll be doing:

• Onboarding and migrating log sources into QRadar (firewalls, EDR, cloud, authentication, proxies)
• Building custom DSMs, log source extensions and custom properties
• Designing and managing load balancing across Event Collectors, Event Processors and Data Nodes
• Managing EPS and tuning offenses and rules with the SOC, IR and threat detection teams
• Monitoring log source health and documenting log flows and architecture

What you’ll need:

• Strong hands-on QRadar engineering experience (Console, Event/Flow Processors, Event Collectors, HA, DSMs)
• Solid knowledge of log transport and balancing (syslog, TCP/UDP, API collection, DNS round-robin)
• QRadar AQL, rule and building block creation
• Scripting/automation in Python or shell
• Splunk experience is a bonus, not essential
• IBM QRadar certifications are desirable

Details:

• £600 - £750 P/D (Inside IR 35)
• Hybrid role, 2-3 days P/W onsite
• Initial 6-Month contract

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