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Senior Privilege Access Monitoring Implementation Specialist

Sunrise Systems, Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$55/hr
Work Type
Remote
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Privilege Access Monitoring Implementation Specialist Job ID:26-04094 Location: Remote Duration: 04 months on W2 contract

Must haves:
  • 4-5 years Splunk experience,
  • 4-5 years IAM experience,
  • monitoring-preferred (previous analyst work)-PLEASE SHOW ON RESUME

Job Summary

Seeking a Senior Privilege Access Monitoring Implementation Specialist to design, implement, test, and document privileged access monitoring within a security operations environment. The role focuses on improving privileged access visibility, reducing false positives, and automating alert routing and incident handling using Splunk SIEM and SOAR technologies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement privileged access monitoring and detection logic.
  • Develop Splunk correlation searches, custom alerts, dashboards, reports, and Risk-Based Alerting.
  • Build SOAR playbooks and automation workflows for incident handling.
  • Integrate SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing systems.
  • Develop alert filtering, suppression, enrichment, and intelligent routing.
  • Create dashboards to monitor alert volume, health, and effectiveness.
  • Validate detections using historical data and optimize alert accuracy.
  • Document searches, workflows, playbooks, runbooks, and operational procedures.
  • Provide knowledge transfer and training to security operations teams.

Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years in security operations, SIEM engineering, security engineering, or related cybersecurity.
  • 4 5 years of hands-on Splunk experience must be clearly shown on resume.
  • 4 5 years of IAM experience must be clearly shown on resume.
  • Previous security monitoring/analyst experience preferred and should be highlighted on resume.
  • Advanced Splunk correlation searches, alerting, dashboards, and Risk-Based Alerting.
  • Strong knowledge of Splunk data pipelines, indexing, field extraction, and search optimization.
  • 2+ years of SOAR experience with Cortex XSOAR, Demisto, or comparable platforms.
  • Experience developing SOAR playbooks, automation, and SIEM/ticketing integrations.
  • 2+ years of privileged access monitoring, IAM/PAM security, or related security operations experience.
  • Understanding of privilege escalation detection, access controls, and authorization frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience reducing false positives and improving alert fidelity.

Compensation:

The hourly rate for this position is $55.00 per hour.

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].

Benefits:

Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.

Skills

Splunk
Ticketing Systems

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