Security Hardening - Logging Pipelines

Title: IT Security Hardening Specialist (Logging & SIEM Focus)
Job Type: Contract
Contract Length: TBD
Pay Range: $80–$100/hour
Start Date: ASAP
Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity:

Our client, a leader in cloud infrastructure and technology, is looking for a skilled IT Security Hardening Specialist to join their team for a high-impact security engagement. This project involves executing a comprehensive security hardening and logging validation program. As part of this initiative, you will be responsible for consolidating log pipelines into a centralized security-owned monitoring platform and ensuring continuous, provable log coverage across the company’s vast application portfolio. This is a hands-on, detail-oriented role for a security professional who can hit the ground running, work from a tracked backlog in Jira, and deliver measurable risk reduction.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:

This role is focused on the successful completion of specific tasks and deliverables related to logging validation and pipeline engineering. Your responsibilities will include:

• Log Pipeline Consolidation: Execute the consolidation of logging clusters into a security-owned monitoring platform, ensuring zero coverage gaps during the migration process.
• Ingestion-Health Monitoring: Build and maintain ingestion-health monitoring systems, including per-source heartbeats and silent-failure/volume-anomaly alerting.
• Coverage Validation: Validate and prove log coverage against a priority source list, delivering recurring, evidence-based coverage reporting to internal teams.
• System Onboarding: Onboard new log sources (SaaS, cloud, and compute/host logs) into the SIEM to ensure comprehensive visibility.
• Operational Excellence: Work item-by-item through a tracked Jira backlog, ensuring every commitment has an owner, clear definition of done, and documented evidence of security hardening.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner directly with internal IT, Security teams, and application owners to ensure seamless log integration and security alignment.

Required Skills & Experience:

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful contract engagements in security and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have:

• 3+ years of experience in security engineering, log-pipeline engineering, or SIEM administration.
• Deep expertise in SIEM tools (e.g., Elastic) and log-pipeline engineering.
• Proven ability in data ingestion, log parsing, and building effective monitoring and alerting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with scripting/automation for security tasks.
• Experience operating across enterprise SaaS, identity management, and large-scale logging environments.
• Strong communication skills to provide clear and concise status updates and collaborate effectively within a technical team.

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