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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Cyber Operations Engineering to join our Digital Security Group within our Cyber Operations organization.

Responsibilities:

• Apply a fundamental understanding of cyber security operations and monitoring to perform the day-to-day operational responsibility of security monitoring and incident response activities, associated with operations that provide up to 24x7 coverage; Implement efficiencies and improvements.
• Develop and keep effective working relationships with multiple internal technology groups; Collaborate across multiple internal federated technology groups; Become a go-to subject matter professional to others within the firm to achieve the required goals and objectives
• Define or implement security configuration for monitoring tools, including alerts, correlation rules, and reporting. Leverage a combination of vendor products and services, open source and custom developed utilities
• Implement or leverage automation and orchestration to improve efficiency and effectiveness of security monitoring and response processes; Document processes and procedures in the form of playbooks and reference guides
• Finding solutions ahead of problems and innovating change in an always evolving technical field
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent experience in cyber security operations, such as engineering in Azure Security Stack in Multi-Tenant environments, Threat Intelligence Platforms, Automation Orchestration (SOAR) tools, EDR tools, Email Security tools, and Firewalls
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required; relevant certifications include CISSP, CCSP, CCSK, GSEC, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, SC-200, CEH, and AZ-900 is preferred
• Experience in security monitoring, security operations, and security development; preferably within Github or similar environment, with skills in detection as code, GIT commands, change management control, and documentation preferably Azure.
• Background with coding, scripting, and development in Powershell, KQL, Python, Java, Regex, JSON
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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