Senior Specialist - Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) Onboarding and Tools Engineer

Specialist CSOC Onboarding and tools

Job Description Summary

Onboarding & AI Engineering will be an integral part of the Novartis Onboarding team.

The main objective of the Engineering is to design, develop, implement, and manage dataflow pipelines and integrate them with SIEM platforms such as Sentinel. The Data onboarded to SIEM will be Crucial for CSOC Analysts and the content development and SOAR Engineers to develop monitoring alerts and automation playbooks.
Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including Novartis' internal teams, external vendors, and Product/Platform engineers, will be a crucial aspect of this role. The Onboarding Engineer will work closely with Application owners to understand and integrate various datasources. This may involve utilizing services such as Cribl, Syslog NG, Azure Monitoring Agent, Universal Forwarder, Azure Functions to list a few.
Furthermore, the CSOC Engineering Lead will work in close partnership with the CSOC stakeholders, including TDR, THR, Forensic, Content Development, and SOAR teams. Their expertise and collaboration will be instrumental in quickly resolving any Data onboarding requests or resolve any issues with the detection rule on security tool such as SIEM, DLP, EDR.
Overall, the Onboarding Engineering role is pivotal in ensuring the proactive defence of Novartis' critical assets, systems, and infrastructure against the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Job Description

• Data Onboarding

  • Evaluate and onboard new data sources, perform data analysis for identifying anomalies and trends and developing dashboards and visualizations for data reporting.

  • Collaborate with CSOC engineers, Threat Hunters, and CSOC Analysts to gather requirements and develop solutions.

  • Troubleshoot and provide support for onboarding issues with platforms like Sentinel, and Cribl.

  • Validate and ensure proper configuration and implementation of new logics with security system and application owners.

  • Perform data normalization, establish datasets, and develop data models.

  • Manage backlog of customer requests for onboarding new data sources.

  • Detect and resolve issues in various data sources, implement health monitoring for data sources and feeds. Identify opportunities for automation in data onboarding and proactively detect parsing/missing-data issues.

  • Provide 24x7 on-call support on a rotational basis, including weekends, to ensure system stability and incident response readiness.

• Cybertools

  • Deploy, and maintain SIEM, SOAR and other security platforms in an enterprise environment.

  • Engineer scalable security architectures leveraging cloud-native and data-lake–based analytics.

  • Integrate security tools across endpoints, email, identity, network, and cloud workloads.

  • Optimize log ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and cost management.

  • Develop and maintain basic dashboards, alerts, and queries to support threat detection.

  • Troubleshoot issues related to data ingestion, performance, and integrations as part of the platform monitoring.

• Essential Requirements:

• Advanced training/certification on Security tools like Sentinel, XDR, DLP
• SANS certifications (for security analyst/SIEM)
• Cloud Security Engineering certification (Azure/AWS).
• 4+ Years work experience. Good general security knowledge.
• Strong knowledge of security tools (DLP, XDR, SIEM, Firewalls) especially Sentinel, M365 Defender would be beneficial.
• Experienced IT administration with broad and in-depth technical, analytical, and conceptual skills.
• Experience in configuring Data collection Endpoints, connectors and parsers.

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:  
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.  

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Skills Desired

Communication Skills, Cyber-Security Regulation, Cyber Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence (Cti), Cyber Threat Management, Cyber Vulnerabilities, Decision Making Skills, Digital Capabilities, Effective use of Technology, Influencing Skills, Information Security Risk Management

Experience Level

Senior Level