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We are seeking a senior security data engineer with deep expertise in SIEM platforms, telemetry pipelines, and security operations tooling to join our global team in Zurich. As the ideal candidate, you combine strong security foundations with a data engineering mindset and are comfortable architecting and operating high-volume, enterprise-scale logging and analytics infrastructure in a regulated financial services environment. You are proactive, technically curious, and thrive in both independent and collaborative work settings.
Your primary responsibilities will involve designing, operating, and evolving our centralised logging and SIEM platforms, building and maintaining data pipelines for intelligent log routing and enrichment, driving SOAR automation, and contributing to the expansion of our security data ecosystem — including early-stage observability use cases. You will work closely with security operations, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure reliable, high-quality data flows from source to insight.
As part of a dedicated team, architect, operate, and continuously improve the Bank’s centralised logging and SIEM platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and
scalability for enterprise-grade data volumes
Design, build, and maintain telemetry and data pipelines, enabling routing, enrichment, filtering, and multi-destination delivery of security and operational log data while maintaining
cost-efficiency
Drive the development and operationalisation of SOAR workflows to accelerate incident response, automate repetitive tasks, and improve security operations efficiency
Develop and maintain service monitoring, detection content, reports, and dashboards that provide actionable security intelligence to stakeholders across the organisation
Collaborate with security operations, IT infrastructure, and application teams to integrate new data sources, ensure data quality, and expand platform coverage — including early-stage
contributions to observability use cases
Maintain technical documentation including architecture descriptions, runbooks, data flow diagrams, and security parameterisations
Coordinate the mitigation or resolution of security-relevant platform incidents with internal security stakeholders and external vendors
Contribute to the development of architecture, standards, and best practices for the centralised logging and telemetry ecosystem
Provide 2nd and 3rd level engineering support, including participation in an on-call rotation
Highly proactive, solution-oriented, and results-driven with strong abstract and conceptual thinking skills
Structured and goal-oriented approach to work, with the ability to independently assess, prioritise, and resolve complex tasks and requests
Creative problem solver who challenges the status quo and proposes innovative solutions to existing issues
Strong communicator who can translate technical complexity into clear guidance for platform users, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
Contribute to the development of architecture, concepts, and processes related to the Centralised Logging and Telemetry ecosystem
Comfortable working across multiple application, infrastructure, and business teams
Willingness and curiosity to learn new technologies and approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape
University degree or higher technical education (university of applied sciences, federal diploma) in Computer Science, Information Security, or related discipline — or equivalent
practical experience
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience engineering and administering enterprise SIEM platforms, with experience developing detection content, correlation searches, dashboards,
and CIM-normalised data models
Strong experience designing and operating data pipelines and log routing infrastructure, ideally with Cribl Stream or comparable telemetry pipeline tools
Practical scripting and automation skills with one or more of: Python, Bash/Shell, JavaScript
Working experience with GIT, SQL, REST APIs, and regular expressions
Solid understanding of SOAR platforms and security operations automation
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible is an advantage
Fluent written and spoken English
Good knowledge of German is a strong plus
We are looking forward to receiving your full job application through our online application tool.
