Security Engineer - Logging and Monitoring

Job description

Join John Hancock’s CyberDefense team to help implement Manulife’s global Logging & Monitoring Standard. You will support centralized event logging to our SIEM, ensure critical applications and security controls produce required log events, and align event data to security use cases. The role focuses on reviewing logging compliance surveys from application teams, assisting with log onboarding, validating event content, and identifying opportunities to automate existing processes. You will partner with Application, Platform, and Asset Owners to onboard and validate log events, enabling effective detection and response and cross-team collaboration. Position responsibilities: · Support application and platform teams in identifying security relevant events, defining event criticality, and ensuring required event details are captured · Assist with onboarding application and infrastructure logs into the centralized SIEM platform · Guide teams on log configuration requirements aligned with enterprise logging standards and verify successful ingestion, parsing, and data quality · Review logging compliance surveys and partner with application teams to address gaps and support remediation · C...