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Ally and Your Career
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Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too
The Opportunity
We are seeking a Principal Cyber Security Engineer with hands-on experience designing, deploying, and optimizing SIEM (Security Incident & Event Management) platforms at scale. The individual will own the end-to-end lifecycle of SIEM capability-from architecture and data onboarding to content engineering, automation, and continuous improvement. The individual will collaborate with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, IT operations, and application teams to ensure high-fidelity detections, actionable visibility, and reliable, compliant log management.
At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The Work Itself
SIEM Architecture & Ownership
Design and maintain the SIEM architecture, including data ingestion pipelines, parsers, normalization schemas, storage tiers, and retention strategies.
Evaluate and implement SIEM platform features and integrations; drive upgrades and migrations as needed.
Data Onboarding & Normalization
Onboard logs from diverse sources (EDR, firewalls, IDS/IPS, IAM, AD, DNS, proxies, email security, cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP, SaaS apps, containers/Kubernetes, DBs, identity providers).
Implement data quality monitoring and SLA-driven dashboards for ingestion health, parser accuracy, and data latency.
Performance, Scale, and Reliability
Optimize SIEM performance: indexing, search speed, hot/warm/cold storage, retention, and cost control.
Implement role-based access control, multitenancy (if applicable), and data governance.
Ensure high availability and disaster recovery; document and test failover procedures.
Monitoring, Metrics, and Continuous Improvement
Define KPIs/KRIs (e.g., MTTD, alert quality, data freshness, coverage, false positive rate).
Lead purple-team exercises and detection gap assessments; drive remediation.
Provide runbooks, knowledge base articles, and training to SOC and IT teams.
Compliance & Governance
Align SIEM data handling with regulatory and contractual requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR).
Implement data minimization, masking, and retention policies, support audits and eDiscovery.
Collaboration & Leadership
Partner with IT/Cloud/Data teams to implement logging at source and ensure secure, reliable transport.
Mentor junior engineers and analysts; perform code reviews and content validation.
Contribute to security architecture reviews for new systems and applications.
The Skills You Bring
Minimum Qualifications
7+ years of relevant experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications
Highly preferred: 5+ years of experience in SIEM engineering or closely related security engineering roles.
Highly preferred: Proven expertise with at least one enterprise SIEM platform end-to-end, preferably Splunk and Cribl (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic Security, Exabeam, Sumo Logic, LogRhythm, Chronicle).
Strong proficiency in:
Data parsing and normalization (e.g., regex, grok, KQL, SPL, AQL, Lucene).
Scripting/automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform/Ansible preferred).
Log source onboarding from Windows/Linux, AD, network devices, cloud services, EDR, and SaaS.
Experience with cloud logging and security services (e.g., AWS CloudTrail/CloudWatch/GuardDuty, Azure Defender/M365, GCP Audit Logs).
Experience with Agile methodologies and collaborative work environments.
Familiarity with identity and access management, network security, endpoint security, and common enterprise architectures.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with UEBA/behavior analytics and anomaly detection.
Experience with EDR/XDR integrations and telemetry correlation.
Certifications: GCDA, GCIA, GCFE, GCIH, GMON, Splunk Certified Architect, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect, AWS/Azure security certs, CISSP.
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How We'll Have Your Back
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Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:
Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts.
Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Base Pay Range:
An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.
Emerging: 110000
Experienced: 145000
Expert: 180000
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan
