With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
The Home Depot is seeking a highly motivated Cybersecurity Engineer II with expertise in SIEM and EDR platforms such as Cortex XSIAM, Splunk, CrowdStrike, or similar technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing security monitoring and endpoint detection capabilities to enhance the organization's threat detection and response posture. You will develop and fine-tune detection use cases, create automation and correlation logic, investigate complex security challenges, and collaborate closely with SOC, Cyber Resiliency, and engineering teams to improve visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen cybersecurity operations. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with an analytical mindset and a passion for advancing detection capabilities and operational excellence.
Maintain day-to-day operational health of EDR and SIEM infrastructure
Conduct research to baseline normal activity and tune out noise from alerting
Tune security use cases to provide high fidelity alerts
Collaborate to develop new, custom security use cases, log correlations, and detection rules
Apply event data to existing security use cases and models
Develop and configure dashboards for monitoring event trends and alerts
Configure reporting to provide key metrics and trends
Collaborate with external teams to onboard new data sources to SIEM
Validate appropriate extraction, parsing, and formatting in event data
Write custom field extractions in RegEx
Perform troubleshooting and break/fix efforts during service disruptions
Configure AV exceptions and blocks
Maintain updated service documentation
Perform other related duties as assigned
Required Skills:
2+ years of cyber security work experience
1+ years of SIEM or EDR specific work experience with platforms such as Cortex XSIAM, Splunk, CrowdStrike, etc.
Good understanding of networking infrastructure concepts, technologies, and protocols
Capable of identifying gaps in logging/monitoring/endpoint protection and recommending solutions
Able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical constituents
Solid people, team, and communication skills
Preferred Skills:
Security+ and SIEM Vendor Certification (any vendor) and EDR Vendor Certification (any vendor) or equivalent certifications
Incident Response / SOC work experience
Experience working with cloud-based solutions, such as Azure, GCP
Experience with Linux/Unix Administration
Experienced with writing formal reports
Key Responsibilities:
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
This position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
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Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Minimum Education:
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
Competencies:
Action Oriented
Collaborates
Communicates Effectively
Customer Focus
Drives Results
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
The pay range for this position is between $90,000.00 - $130,000.00
The Home Depot is a major home improvement retailer that serves customers with a wide range of products and services for home improvement and repair projects. The company operates physical stores across the United States and supports its operations through a substantial technology and engineering organization. Their internal technology teams develop enterprise software solutions, data warehouses, and digital products to support business operations and customer service. The company maintains an HR Service Center that provides support to associates and managers, demonstrating its commitment to internal operations and employee support.
