Baker Hughes—Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Google SecOps Engineer

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Description: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Google SecOps Engineer Are you a highly motivated, creative individual and passionate about sales and proposals? Would you like to be a part of successful team? Join our team! Baker Hughes is the leading energy technology company, who delivers across the energy value chain through our market-leading business segments. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries. Our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward! Making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. Partner with the best As a Senior Security Platform Engineer, you will own the engineering, administration, scalability, and continuous improvement of our enterprise security telemetry platform. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating Google SecOps as a highly available, scalable, and reliable security platform that enables security operations across the organization. This is a platform engineering position—not a Security Analyst, Detection Engineer, Threat Hunter, or Incident Response role. You will work closely with cloud engineering, infrastructure, networking, IAM, application teams, and the SOC to ensure security telemetry is on board, normalized, and delivered with high quality while continuously improving platform performance, reliability, and operational efficiency. As a Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Google SecOps Engineer, you will also be responsible for: Engineer and operate the Google SecOps Platform - Design, build, administer, and optimize the Google SecOps platform for enterprise-scale environments. - Own platform reliability, scalability, availability, and operational health. - Manage platform configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, and new feature adoption. - Develop standards and best practices for Google SecOps administration. - Continuously improve platform performance and operational maturity. Build Enterprise Security Telemetry Pipelines - Design and implement scalable ingestion pipelines for security telemetry across cloud, SaaS, network, endpoint, and infrastructure platforms. - Onboard new data sources into Google SecOps while ensuring data quality, completeness, and consistency. - Develop and maintain parsers, mappings, and UDM normalization to maximize data usability. - Validate log integrity, field mappings, timestamps, enrichment, and normalization. - Troubleshoot ingestion failures, parser issues, latency, and pipeline bottlenecks. - Implement event filtering and routing strategies to improve platform efficiency and optimize licensing costs. Platform Architecture & Engineering - Design scalable telemetry architectures supporting enterprise growth. - Partner with architecture teams on long-term security platform strategy. - Build reusable onboarding frameworks, standards, and automation. - Drive infrastructure-as-code and configuration management initiatives where applicable. - Support platform resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness. Automation & Operational Excellence - Automate repetitive platform administration and operational tasks using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, and other scripting languages. - Develop CI/CD processes for platform configuration, parser deployment, and operational content management. - Create automated validation processes for new data onboardings. - Build self-service onboarding workflows for internal engineering teams where appropriate. Platform Monitoring & Optimization - Develop operational dashboards measuring platform health, ingestion performance, parser quality, pipeline throughput, and platform utilization. - Monitor platform capacity, storage utilization, ingestion rates, and overall system health. - Perform performance tuning and capacity planning. - Identify opportunities for operational efficiency and cost optimization. - Establish operational metrics and service health reporting. Enable the Security Organization - Build and maintain documentation, engineering standards, and onboarding guides. - Improve the overall security telemetry ecosystem through engineering enhancements. - Support SOC analysts by providing reliable, high-quality security data and platform capabilities. - Recommend architectural improvements that increase visibility, scalability, and operational efficiency. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - 5+ years of experience administrating and engineering Google SecOps SIEM or security telemetry platforms. - Experience designing and operating large-scale security logging platforms. - Experience integrating enterprise applications using APIs and cloud-native services. - Strong troubleshooting and platform engineering skills across distributed systems. What Makes You Successful - Strong platform engineering mindset with a passion for building reliable, scalable systems. - Deep understanding of enterprise log management and security telemetry architecture. - Experience improving platform reliability through automation and engineering best practices. - Ability to translate complex technical requirements into scalable operational solutions. - Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, cloud, networking, infrastructure, and security teams. - Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on operational excellence. Preferred Qualifications Experience with any of the following is considered a plus but is not required: - Detection engineering. YARA-L rule development - SOAR platforms and workflow automation - MITRE ATT&CK framework. Threat hunting. Incident response - Purple team collaboration. Threat intelligence. Security automation initiatives Work in a way that works for you We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive Working with us Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other. Working for you Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect. Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities Comprehensive private medical care options Safety net of life insurance and disability programs Tailored financial programs Additional elected or voluntary benefits The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Cyber Security Engineering