Accenture Federal Services
SIEM Engineer
About this role
Accenture Federal Services seeks a SIEM Engineer to monitor security events, analyze logs, and manage threat detection systems for a federal government client. The role involves tuning SIEM platforms, escalating incidents, generating security reports, and collaborating with IT and security teams to strengthen security posture.
What you'll do
- Monitor and analyze security events and logs using SIEM platforms
- Identify potential security incidents and escalate to appropriate teams
- Tune SIEM rules, alerts, and correlation logic to improve detection accuracy
- Generate routine and ad-hoc security reports for situational awareness
- Collaborate with IT and security teams on incident response and corrective actions
- Assist in developing and maintaining security policies and documentation
What they're looking for
- SIEM platform expertise and administration
- Cybersecurity principles and threat detection
- Log analysis and event correlation
- Alert tuning and rule optimization
- Incident response and investigation
- Security reporting and documentation
- SOC and enterprise security operations
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Professional certifications and training support
- Career growth and development opportunities
- Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work recognition
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Federal government mission-focused work
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Accenture Federal Services
Accenture Federal Services builds and maintains mission-critical technology solutions for the U.S. federal government, including cloud infrastructure, enterprise systems integrations, and cyber defense tools. The company is hiring DevOps engineers, full-stack developers, SAP specialists, and test engineers to support classified and unclassified federal government projects.
- Website
- accenturefederal.com
Likely interview questions
- Describe your experience tuning SIEM rules and alerts. Can you give an example of how you reduced false positives?
- Walk us through your process for analyzing a security event from initial detection to escalation and resolution.