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Accenture

Malaga, I+D6 - South Building; Spain

SOC Engineer

Posted yesterday

Level
Mid level
Experience
Not stated
Work style
On-site
Full-time
Area
Security engineering

At a glance

The role in plain English

This SOC Engineer role involves maintaining and improving SIEM/SOAR platforms in a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center. The position suits candidates with experience in platform engineering, log management and incident response support. Day-to-day tasks include onboarding log sources, troubleshooting, health monitoring and collaborating with SOC analysts and engineers. The role is based on-site at Accenture’s EU Regional Delivery Center in Malaga, supporting multiple clients and contributing to continuous SOC improvements.

What you'll do

  • Install, configure and maintain SIEM/SOAR components
  • Onboard and normalize new log sources into SIEM
  • Monitor and report on platform health and performance
  • Troubleshoot and resolve log-source and platform issues
  • Support SOAR integration and content development

What they're looking for

Essential

  • Experience with SIEM/SOAR platforms
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work in a 24x7 environment
  • Experience with log-source onboarding and management

Nice to have

  • Experience with Google SecOps, Crowdstrike NG-SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk
  • Experience in Change Management activities

Core skills

  • SIEM
  • SOAR
  • Log management
  • Troubleshooting
  • Platform monitoring
  • Change management
  • Playbook development

The shape of the job

Technical depth

3/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

4/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

3/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

4/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01Describe your process for onboarding a new log source to a SIEM.
  2. 02How do you troubleshoot parsing issues in SIEM integrations?
  3. 03What steps do you take to ensure SIEM platform health?
  4. 04How have you contributed to SOAR playbook development or integration?

About Accenture

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Full job descriptionAs published by Accenture

Responsibilities: As a SOC Platform Engineer within our Adaptive MxDR service, you are responsible for the installation, configuration, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of the SIEM/SOAR components that power our Security Operations Center in a 24x7x365 environment. You keep the detection and response platforms healthy, performant and fully fed with onboarded log sources, ensuring analysts always operate on reliable, well-tuned data. Working from our EU Regional Delivery Center, you collaborate closely with SOC analysts, detection and SOAR engineers, and onboarding teams across our multi-platform stack (Google SecOps, Crowdstrike NG-SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk), monitoring 50+ clients. You contribute to threat detection engineering and to the continuous improvement of a tierless, AI-augmented SOC. Responsibilities Install, configure, implement and maintain SIEM/SOAR components, including monitoring, configuration changes, account management, log-source management and software/patch updates. Prepare log baseline configuration documents and verify and troubleshoot parsing issues for integrated devices. Perform log-source and device health tracking, run health checks and produce weekly health reporting; manage the health status of SIEM components. Onboard and normalize new log sources into the SIEM, review data ingestion and perform ingestion trend analysis. Perform whitelisting and use-case fine-tuning based on inputs from the operations team, and create and maintain the SIEM use-case library. Drive and support Change Management activities across the platform. Provide subject-matter-expert support for the client SIEM solution and maintain up-to-date documentation of the current environment. Assist with SIEM/SOAR application support and with log-collector / log-forwarder deployment and maintenance. Support SOAR integration and content development, working with detection and SOAR engineers on custom integrations and playbook enablement. Prepare technical reports specific to platform support, troubleshoot client monitoring solution issues and resolve log-source monitoring issues reported by the operations team. Continuously monitor solution performance and recommend upgrades and optimizations to the client.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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