Security Engineer - Logging and Monitoring

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
· Collaborate with teams to complete annual logging attestations and compliance activities
· Validate that security controls and critical applications produce required log events to support detection and response use cases
· Identify opportunities to automate logging, onboarding, validation, and compliance processes to improve efficiency and consistency
· Maintain and administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers that support centralized logging pipelines
· Develop and maintain lightweight scripts to streamline log onboarding, enrichment, validation, and reporting workflows
· Partner with CyberDefense, Platform, Application, and Infrastructure teams to strengthen cross team collaboration and observability maturity

Required Qualifications:

Entry level experience or academic exposure to programming or scripting
· Working knowledge of Linux operating systems with comfort using the command line and basic shell scripting
· Foundational understanding of log forwarding, collection, and parsing technologies such as rsyslog or nxlog
· Familiarity with enterprise logging standards and SIEM onboarding concepts

. Must have couple years coding/programming experience with any language (preferred language is Python) but open to .Net or Java coding experience.
· Strong collaboration, communication, and documentation skills
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

· Interest or experience in AI or machine learning, particularly applied to automation, analytics, or observability
· Exposure to security operations, monitoring, or cyber defense concepts
· Curiosity and willingness to learn how security detection and response is enabled through high quality log data

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit .

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Referenced Salary Location

Boston, Massachusetts

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$90,160.00 USD - $167,440.00 USD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact < for the salary range for your location.

Manulife/John Hancock offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in the U.S. includes up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.

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