Principal Cyber Security Engineer || On-site

This role is responsible for managing, operating, and maintaining the controls that protect Bayer s computer networks, systems and data from cyberattacks. They work closely with IT teams to identify, assess and mitigate security risks, and they work with ITSM to ensure operational continuity and with cyber incident response to contain the damage from security incidents and prevent future attacks.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Implement and maintain the global centralized security logging infrastructure (data engine, SIEM and UEBA platforms) to collect security relevant data of the entire IT infrastructure in scope as basis for global security monitoring.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to establish, maintain, and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and reporting
• Proactively inform stakeholders in a timely manner about upcoming infrastructure and platform changes
• Steer the onboarding processes and health monitoring of data sources necessary for the development and sustainment of dashboards, reports, alerts, and KPIs needed to support security visibility throughout the organization.
• Implement and optimize cloud infrastructure, and automation frameworks, ensuring secure and scalable platform operations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates and automation scripts for platform provisioning and configuration.
• Evaluate platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and develop solutions to ensure high availability and scalability.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior platform engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform security practices.
• Document platform configurations, operational procedures, and security measures in line with best practices.
• Respond to platform incidents, conducting root cause analysis and recommending corrective actions.

WHO YOU ARE :

Skills Required

Security Logging Infrastructure (SIEM / UEBA), MS Sentinel / Cribl, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis, Linux & Windows OS Expertise