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Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
As a Senior SIEM Engineer, you will:
- Own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle)—from source onboarding through reliable shipment—so downstream teams can power search, alerting, enrichment, and investigations.
- Design and deliver scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation, including feed health signals, shipment validations, and other meta-attributes that ensure end-to-end feed reliability.
- Partner with and build strong working relationships across Threat Management Engineering, Threat Detection & Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and CSIRT to deliver high-quality, backward-compatible changes to large-volume, high-criticality data feeds and SecOps integrations.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across log pipelines and SIEM integrations (including other SIEM platforms) as part of a shared 24/7 on-call rotation; implement preventative mechanisms through monitoring, runbooks, and automation.
- Build and enhance ingestion integrations and operational tooling using Python and regular expressions for parsing, validation, transformations, and schema evolution across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV).
- Develop monitoring and alerting aligned to platform SLOs/SLAs, improving completeness, timeliness, and quality while reducing incident recurrence and MTTR.
- Collaborate across teams to prioritize work, unblock partners, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.
In this role, you are a technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable log ingestion capabilities that enable the core cybersecurity mission at Target. You bring strong troubleshooting and systems thinking, developing deep understanding of the platform’s architecture, interfaces, and failure modes to drive scalable improvements across ingestion pipelines, integrations, feed health, and shipment validation. You lead investigations from signal to root cause, communicate clearly during incidents, and follow through with durable preventative fixes via observability, runbooks, and automation. You take broad end-to-end ownership—raising operational readiness so the platform can rapidly pivot to meet shifting cybersecurity landscape, priorities, and incident demands. You consistently produce high-quality code and operational changes, and you collaborate across teams to align on standards, unblock delivery, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
- 4-year degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience
- Proven track record building and operating systems in a cloud environment (public cloud required)
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency with regular expressions for parsing, extraction, and validation
- Experience integrating systems using APIs (including authentication/authorization concepts)
- Experience ingesting, transforming, and validating log/event data across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV), including schema changes and backwards compatibility
- Demonstrated troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in production environments, including follow-through on preventative fixes (monitoring, runbooks, automation)
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and common resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency) Experience migrating services or data flows between provider platforms (e.g., on-prem
- cloud)
- Willingness to participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.
As a Senior SIEM Engineer, you will:
- Own and improve end-to-end log ingestion into Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle)—from source onboarding through reliable shipment—so downstream teams can power search, alerting, enrichment, and investigations.
- Design and deliver scalable improvements to ingestion pipelines, integrations, and data validation, including feed health signals, shipment validations, and other meta-attributes that ensure end-to-end feed reliability.
- Partner with and build strong working relationships across Threat Management Engineering, Threat Detection & Operations, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and CSIRT to deliver high-quality, backward-compatible changes to large-volume, high-criticality data feeds and SecOps integrations.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across log pipelines and SIEM integrations (including other SIEM platforms) as part of a shared 24/7 on-call rotation; implement preventative mechanisms through monitoring, runbooks, and automation.
- Build and enhance ingestion integrations and operational tooling using Python and regular expressions for parsing, validation, transformations, and schema evolution across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV).
- Develop monitoring and alerting aligned to platform SLOs/SLAs, improving completeness, timeliness, and quality while reducing incident recurrence and MTTR.
- Collaborate across teams to prioritize work, unblock partners, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.
In this role, you are a technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating reliable log ingestion capabilities that enable the core cybersecurity mission at Target. You bring strong troubleshooting and systems thinking, developing deep understanding of the platform’s architecture, interfaces, and failure modes to drive scalable improvements across ingestion pipelines, integrations, feed health, and shipment validation. You lead investigations from signal to root cause, communicate clearly during incidents, and follow through with durable preventative fixes via observability, runbooks, and automation. You take broad end-to-end ownership—raising operational readiness so the platform can rapidly pivot to meet shifting cybersecurity landscape, priorities, and incident demands. You consistently produce high-quality code and operational changes, and you collaborate across teams to align on standards, unblock delivery, and continuously improve telemetry quality and platform performance.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
- 4-year degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of software development and/or platform engineering experience
- Proven track record building and operating systems in a cloud environment (public cloud required)
- Proficiency in Python
- Proficiency with regular expressions for parsing, extraction, and validation
- Experience integrating systems using APIs (including authentication/authorization concepts)
- Experience ingesting, transforming, and validating log/event data across standard and non-standard formats (e.g., JSON, Syslog, CEF, CSV/TSV), including schema changes and backwards compatibility
- Demonstrated troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in production environments, including follow-through on preventative fixes (monitoring, runbooks, automation)
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and common resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency) Experience migrating services or data flows between provider platforms (e.g., on-prem
- cloud)
- Willingness to participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
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Who's Hiring
- OpenAI10
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- Walmart4
- Meta3
- MongoDB3
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- Technology & Software16
- Science & Research5
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in infrastructure security engineer jobs.
- Experience securing cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud environments
- Proficiency with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Hands-on knowledge of network security including firewalls, VPNs, and intrusion detection systems
- Active security certification such as CISSP, CCNP Security, or CompTIA Security+
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks including NIST CSF, CIS Controls, or FedRAMP
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related technical field
Tips for Your Infrastructure Security Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to each environment
Infrastructure security roles differ sharply between cloud-native shops, hybrid environments, and on-prem data centers. Call out the exact stack you've secured, whether that's AWS VPCs, Azure landing zones, or Cisco-based networks, so hiring managers can immediately place your experience.
List certifications in a visible section
CISSP, CCNP Security, and CompTIA Security+ are screened at the resume stage, not the interview. Put active certifications and their renewal dates near the top of your resume so automated filters and recruiters don't overlook them before your application is reviewed.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists infrastructure security engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies with complex infrastructure
Heavily regulated industries like financial services, healthcare systems, and federal contractors post infrastructure security roles more consistently than most. Filter your search by sector to find openings where your compliance experience with NIST, FedRAMP, or HIPAA controls is a direct match.
Prepare a concrete incident response example
Technical panels for this role almost always include a scenario question about a real or simulated breach. Walk interviewers through your actual detection, containment, and post-incident steps, naming the tools you used, rather than describing a generic process.
Negotiate the scope of your environment
Before accepting an offer, clarify the number of systems you'll own, whether you'll have a dedicated team, and what the on-call rotation looks like. These factors affect daily workload as much as base pay does and are easier to negotiate before you start.
Infrastructure Security Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most infrastructure security engineers?
The companies hiring the most infrastructure security engineers right now include OpenAI, Amazon, and Walmart, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Defense contractors, large financial institutions, and major cloud providers tend to post the highest volume of these roles consistently.
How many infrastructure security engineer jobs are remote?
About 57% of infrastructure security engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though positions requiring access to classified systems or on-prem hardware are almost always on-site. Cloud security and policy-focused roles within the discipline tend to offer the most remote flexibility.
How do you become an infrastructure security engineer?
Start with a foundation in networking or systems administration, then build security knowledge through certifications like CompTIA Security+ or CCNP Security. Gain hands-on experience securing servers, networks, or cloud environments in an IT or junior security role. Progressively take on responsibilities like vulnerability management, firewall configuration, and incident response to move into a dedicated infrastructure security position.
Can you get hired as an infrastructure security engineer with little experience?
Yes, but you'll need to demonstrate technical hands-on work beyond coursework. Build a home lab where you configure firewalls, set up a SIEM, or simulate attacks and defenses. Contribute to open-source security tooling or document your projects publicly. Entry-level roles often use titles like junior security engineer or security analyst and grow into infrastructure-focused responsibilities.
What does the infrastructure security engineer interview process look like?
Most processes include a recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering networking and security fundamentals, and a panel or take-home exercise involving a real-world scenario such as a network architecture review or incident response simulation. Final rounds often include a conversation with a senior engineer or team lead focused on how you've handled past security challenges.
Where can I find and apply to infrastructure security engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to infrastructure security engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing without any extra steps.
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