Infrastructure Security Engineer - Security Logging
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Remote
Interview Process
1. A series of video calls 2. Coding exercise involving working on a Merge Request that is like a real work task
Salary
$124,300-$226,400
Programming Languages Mentioned
Ruby, PHP, Python, R
The GitLab DevOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 1,800+ team members and values that guide a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.
The Security Logging engineers own security initiatives related to security of GitLab.com. They work to improve the coverage and usability of security-data on GitLab. They work very closely with the Security Incident Response Team [SIRT] and share findings proactively.
Responsibilities
- Be part of the architectural direction, administration, maintenance, documentation, and oversight of the Security information and event management [SIEM] solution
- Create and maintain integrations and solutions for the log collection, aggregation, indexing, search, alerting
- Manage implementation, enhancement and adoption of the solutions built by the team into operations
- Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of tactics, techniques and patterns of attackers
- Conduct incident response investigations
- Collect and review security logs from all systems (Cloud Providers, GitLab, OS, G-Suite, OKTA, IDS, etc.)
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Contribute to creation of runbooks
Requirements
- Ability to use GitLab
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in site-reliability engineering, cloud security, system engineering, or similar positions
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or Amazon Web Services
- Substantial knowledge of the Linux operating system
- Experience with one or more programming languages (Python and either Ruby, Go, or PHP)
- Demonstrated experience with running systems at scale
- Proficiency to communicate over a text-based medium (Slack, GitLab Issues, Email) and can succinctly document technical details
- Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
Levels
Senior Log Management Engineer
This position reports to the Manager, Infrastructure Security.
Senior Log Management Engineer Job Grade
The Senior Log Management Engineer is a grade 7.
Senior Log Management Engineer Responsibilities
- Create and provide oversight for rule creation to generate actionable security alerts
- Be a subject-matter expert (SME) of at least 1 technical area impacting the security of the product
- Identify inconsistencies in logs and work with development, infrastructure and security teams and work to standardize them
- Assist on root cause analysis (RCA) and security incident reviews
- Guarantee the availability, and recoverability of the SIEM ecosystem
- Assist on actions to mitigate any threats based on findings
- Mentor other members of the Security Team
- Ownership and delivery on complex projects
Senior Log Management Engineer Requirements
- Experience working with incident response
- Experience with logging systems and log analysis
- Experience using and administrating analysis platforms such as Splunk, ELK, BigQuery, etc…
- Experience with orchestration technologies such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Working experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Capability to build working relationships with key stakeholders
Hiring Process
Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
- Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30-minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
- Then, candidates will be invited to schedule a 50-minute interview with the team hiring manager.
- Candidates will be invited to schedule 2 separate 50-minute interviews with Security Research team member peers.
- Candidates will then be invited to schedule an interview with VP of Security
- Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.
About GitLab
GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.
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Top 10 Reasons to Work for GitLab:
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- Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
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- Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
- Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
- Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Friends and Family days
- Remote Done Right: One of the world's largest all-remote companies, prolific inventor of remote best practices
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