Location: Massachusetts (Hybrid/Remote with Onsite Support as Needed) Employment Type: Full-Time Clearance/Background Requirements: Ability to pass state and federal background investigations About the Opportunity We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Splunk Engineer to support large-scale security operations, observability, and data analytics initiatives for government and enterprise environments, including critical support for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS). This role requires a hands-on technical expert capable of architecting, deploying, optimizing, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex Splunk environments supporting cybersecurity operations, compliance initiatives, incident response activities, and enterprise IT monitoring. The ideal candidate combines deep Splunk expertise with strong infrastructure, cloud, security, and automation skills and can operate effectively within highly regulated environments. Key Responsibilities Splunk Architecture & Administration • Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise Splunk environments. • Manage Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud deployments. • Administer Indexers, Search Heads, Deployment Servers, Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, and Cluster Managers. • Design and optimize data ingestion pipelines across diverse data sources. • Implement and maintain Splunk clustering and high-availability architectures. • Perform capacity planning and infrastructure optimization. Security Operations Support • Support Security Operations Center (SOC) initiatives. • Develop and maintain SIEM use cases, correlation searches, alerts, and dashboards. • Create and tune Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) content. • Assist with threat hunting and incident investigations. • Support MITRE ATT&CK mapping and threat detection engineering. • Analyze security events and provide actionable recommendations. EOTSS & Government Support • Assist with onboarding state agencies and municipalities into centralized Splunk platforms. • Support compliance initiatives including CJIS, IRS Publication 1075, HIPAA, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks. • Participate in major incident response activities. • Collaborate with agency stakeholders, security teams, and executive leadership. • Develop operational runbooks and technical documentation. Data Engineering & Integration • Integrate logs and telemetry from: o Microsoft 365 o Azure o AWS o Google Cloud o Windows Server o Linux o Network Infrastructure o Firewalls o Endpoint Security Platforms o Identity Providers o SaaS Applications • Develop custom parsers, field extractions, transforms, and CIM mappings. • Support Splunk Data Models and accelerated searches. Automation & Optimization • Develop automation using: o Python o PowerShell o REST APIs o SOAR platforms • Improve operational efficiency through workflow automation. • Optimize search performance and reduce infrastructure costs. • Implement monitoring and health-check frameworks. Required Qualifications Technical Experience • 5+ years of hands-on Splunk engineering experience. • 3+ years supporting enterprise-scale Splunk deployments exceeding 500GB/day ingestion. • Strong experience with: o Splunk Enterprise o Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) o Splunk Cloud o Splunk ITSI (preferred) o Splunk SOAR (preferred) Infrastructure Knowledge • Windows Server Administration • Linux Administration • Active Directory • Microsoft Azure • AWS • Virtualization Platforms • Networking fundamentals • DNS, DHCP, PKI, VPN technologies Security Knowledge • SIEM Operations • Threat Detection Engineering • Incident Response • Vulnerability Management • Security Frameworks: o NIST o CIS o CJIS o HIPAA o IRS 1075 o CMMC (preferred) Scripting & Development • Python • PowerShell • Regex • JSON • XML • REST APIs • Git Preferred Certifications Splunk Certifications • Splunk Certified Architect • Splunk Certified Admin • Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin Security Certifications • CISSP • GIAC Certifications • GCIH • GCIA • Security+ • CySA+ Cloud Certifications • Microsoft Azure Administrator • Azure Security Engineer • AWS Solutions Architect Desired Experience Candidates with experience supporting any of the following will receive special consideration: • State Government • EOTSS • Massachusetts Municipalities • Public Safety Agencies • Law Enforcement • Emergency Management • Healthcare • Critical Infrastructure • Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) • Security Operations Centers (SOC) Personal Characteristics • Strong troubleshooting skills • Excellent communication abilities • Ability to interact with executive leadership • Strong documentation practices • Self-starter capable of working independently • Team-oriented mindset • Ability to remain calm during high-pressure incidents • Passion for cybersecurity and operational excellence What Success Looks Like Within the first 12 months, this individual will: • Improve Splunk search performance and platform stability. • Assist in onboarding additional agencies and data sources. • Enhance threat detection coverage. • Reduce alert fatigue through optimization. • Strengthen compliance reporting capabilities. • Become a trusted technical advisor for EOTSS stakeholders and leadership. Bonus Qualifications • Previous EOTSS experience. • Existing Commonwealth of Massachusetts relationships. • Experience supporting large Splunk deployments exceeding 1TB/day ingest. • Experience with cybersecurity consulting or MSSP environments. For EOTSS specifically, I would strongly recommend targeting candidates with Splunk Architect, Splunk ES, Microsoft Sentinel, and Massachusetts state government experience, because the technical challenges tend to be as much about stakeholder management, compliance, and onboarding agencies as they are about Splunk administration itself. A former EOTSS contractor or someone from Optiv, Deloitte, Accenture, TekStream, or a large MSSP would likely hit the ground running.

Seeking an experienced technical consultant with broad engineering experience and strong technical judgment. Requirements * 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, technical consulting, engineering leadership, or related technical disciplines * Native English speaker with clear verbal communication skills * Current or recent involvement in software delivery, architecture, infrastructure, cloud, AI, automation, or enterprise technology projects * Strong understanding of software architecture, cloud platforms, APIs, integrations, data systems, and engineering practices * Ability to evaluate technical depth through open-ended technical discussions * Comfortable discussing unfamiliar technical domains and ambiguous requirements * Ability to distinguish hands-on experience from theoretical knowledge Application Requirements * Short summary of your technical background * Types of systems, technologies, and organizations you have worked with * 5-minute Loom video introducing yourself and explaining how you evaluate technical expertise during technical discussions Applications focused primarily on sourcing, recruiting, resume screening, or administrative hiring activities will not be considered.

Project Manager – Cloud-Based InsurTech Platform Implementation We are implementing a multi-vendor cloud-based insurance technology platform and need an experienced project manager to oversee the full engagement. The scope includes coordinating six parallel workstreams across a claims system deployment, Azure data lake build, policyholder portal, BI reporting, vendor integrations, and platform infrastructure. You will manage relationships with multiple third-party vendors, track regulatory and contract milestones, run weekly status meetings, and keep a distributed team of independent consultants on schedule. A working understanding of insurance technology, cloud platforms (Azure), or InsurTech implementations is strongly preferred. This is a hands-on PM role — you will own the project plan, issue log, and stakeholder communications day to day. Responsibilities: - Manage and coordinate 6 parallel workstreams from kickoff through go-live - Serve as primary point of contact between all vendors and internal stakeholders - Maintain and update the master project plan, RAID log, and status reports - Facilitate weekly standups and stakeholder meetings - Track regulatory, compliance, and contractual milestones - Identify and escalate risks and blockers proactively - Ensure all integrations and deliverables are on schedule Required Skills: - 5+ years of project management experience on technology implementations - Proven experience managing multi-vendor engagements - Strong written and verbal English communication skills - Familiarity with Azure cloud environments or InsurTech platforms is a plus - PMP or equivalent certification preferred Engagement Details: - Duration: 3–6 months - Rate: Up to $40/hr - Strong preference for U.S.-based individual consultants - No agencies or staffing firms, please

We are looking for a B2B lead generation specialist to build a verified prospect list for an IT automation, cloud infrastructure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and SMB systems consulting business. The initial project is a small paid test: 50 highly relevant leads. Target accounts: 1. MSPs that may need extra automation, Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, or infrastructure support. 2. SAP Business One partners that may need integration, automation, reporting, or technical delivery support. 3. SMB companies in Washington, Oregon, and nearby markets that may need workflow automation, Microsoft 365 modernization, Azure migration, or IT systems support. Required fields for each lead: * Company name * Website * Location * Industry * Company size * Contact name * Job title * Email address * LinkedIn profile URL * Company LinkedIn URL * Source URL * Short reason why this lead fits Requirements: * No generic scraped lists. * No consumer leads. * No irrelevant startups unless they clearly match the target. * Emails must be verified. * Each company must be manually checked for relevance. * Freelancer must use their own tools, accounts, databases, or manual research process for company research, contact discovery, and email verification. * Torreclara will not provide paid lead-generation tools for the initial test project. * Experience with IT services, MSPs, SaaS, Microsoft partners, cloud consulting, or B2B technical services is strongly preferred. Please include: 1. A short explanation of how you would find these leads. 2. What tools or process you use for research and email verification. 3. A sample of 3–5 leads from a similar B2B project, with private data removed if needed. 4. Your fixed price for the first 50-lead test. 5. Your price for 200 additional leads if the test is successful.

We are an enterprise-grade CPaaS provider deploying distributed, multi-tenant cloud communication infrastructure across North America. To support our horizontal scalability, down-stream client sharding, and high-availability routing metrics, we are expanding our upstream wholesale carrier matrix. We are seeking a highly specialized Carrier Relations & Routing Operations Manager to act as our core interconnect negotiator with Tier-1 wholesale aggregators. Core Responsibilities: Act as the primary technical-commercial liaison during procurement, programmatic peering, and trunk provisioning with major wholesale CPaaS networks. Lead introductory discovery and technical scoping calls (via Zoom) with vendor account engineers to articulate our API transaction profiles, multi-tenant architecture, and egress routing topologies. Streamline localized brand documentation and localized registry alignment across multiple upstream gateway pipelines. Requirements: Exceptional, deep-dive understanding of the modern CPaaS and programmatic messaging ecosystem. Must be 100% fluent in industry architecture: A2P vs P2P traffic profiles, SMPP/HTTP API transport, 10DLC routing frameworks, and Toll-Free verification workflows. Native English with strong corporate presence suitable for high-level vendor-facing video conferences. Prior professional tenure at major cloud communications providers (e.g., Twilio, Sinch, Bandwidth, Intelequent) is appreciatively preferred.

## 3) M365 / Azure / AWS / Security Contractor – As Needed **Title:** M365 / Azure / AWS / Security Contractor – As Needed | MSP Projects, Hardening, Cloud, Remediation We’re a growing MSP building a bench of trusted contractors we can use for **as-needed Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and security-related projects** across our SMB client base. Our clients are primarily **small to mid-sized professional services firms**, and we’re looking for someone who can step in for cloud, security, and higher-level technical work when needed. This is **not a full-time role**. We’re looking for a contractor we can use for **short-term projects, escalations, hardening work, migrations, remediation, and occasional client-specific needs** as they arise. ### Typical work may include: * Microsoft 365 administration, cleanup, remediation, and best-practice improvements * Entra ID / Azure AD, MFA, Conditional Access, identity and access configuration * Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Intune-related support or project work * Azure infrastructure support, tenant cleanup, cloud migrations, and troubleshooting * AWS support for SMB environments including areas such as IAM, EC2, VPC, permissions, and cloud troubleshooting * Security hardening, remediation, post-incident cleanup support, and general security improvement projects * Reviewing client environments and providing technical recommendations, findings, and implementation support ### We’re particularly interested in contractors with experience in some combination of: * **Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online / SharePoint / OneDrive** * **Entra ID / Azure AD / Conditional Access / Intune** * **Azure** * **AWS** * **Microsoft Defender / M365 security hardening** * General security remediation, incident cleanup support, or cloud security improvement work ### Ideal experience: * Prior experience supporting **SMB environments** or working in an **MSP / multi-client environment** * Ability to work independently, document findings clearly, and communicate at a professional level * Comfortable stepping into projects that may last anywhere from a few hours to several days * Comfortable supporting environments in the **10–100 user range** * Able to work with a small MSP team and provide strong technical guidance where needed ### Engagement structure: We are specifically looking for someone open to: * **As-needed / project-based work** * Cloud, Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and security-related projects that may come up periodically rather than on a fixed weekly schedule * Remediation, hardening, migration, or escalation work as needed * Occasional after-hours work for planned cutovers, urgent remediation, or project deadlines ### When applying, please include: 1. Which of the following you work in most often: **Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, security / hardening / remediation** 2. Whether you’ve worked with MSPs or supported multiple SMB client environments 3. The types of projects you’re strongest in today 4. Your availability for short-term project work or urgent escalations 5. Whether you’re comfortable coordinating over **Slack or Microsoft Teams** if we’re a fit

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to deploy our existing containerized application to AWS EKS. Project Scope: - Set up a production-grade AWS EKS cluster (using eksctl or Terraform) - Deploy our microservices application using Kubernetes manifests or Helm charts - Configure proper networking (Ingress, ALB), service discovery, and secrets management - Implement Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and resource requests/limits - Set up monitoring (CloudWatch or Prometheus) and logging - Create a basic CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions that builds Docker images and deploys to EKS (staging + production environments with manual approval) - Document the full deployment process and provide handover Required Skills & Experience: - Strong hands-on experience with AWS EKS and Kubernetes - Proficiency with Docker and multi-stage Dockerfiles - Experience with Helm charts (preferred) - GitHub Actions for CI/CD - Terraform or eksctl for infrastructure - AWS services: ECR, IAM, VPC, ALB - Strong Linux and YAML skills Nice to Have: - Previous experience deploying Node.js / Python / Java applications - Knowledge of ArgoCD or Flux for GitOps

The Information Security Analyst partners with business units, IT, DevOps, and third-party vendors to maintain and continuously strengthen the organization's security posture and regulatory compliance. This role demands deep technical expertise across cloud environments, operational security, risk management, and data privacy. Key Responsibilities Security Operations & Monitoring - Monitor and analyze security alerts from SIEM and other detection tools; tune rules and enhance detection capabilities to reduce false positives and improve threat visibility. - Identify gaps and implement those at endpoint, SIEM, network devices to guarantee log collection and alerting for current threats - Participate in and continuously improve incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery exercises. - Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques; translate intelligence into actionable defensive recommendations. - Collaborate with CISO and IT to ensure secure design and deployment of systems, networks, and cloud environments. - Support system administrators with security policy deployment and configuration aligned to company standards and industry benchmarks (e.g., CIS). Compliance - Lead and support technical compliance activities for applicable frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, PII, SOC 2, CIS); identify control gaps, implement remediation, and gather audit evidence. Validate that controls have been implemented, are functioning and obtain evidence as needed for internal and external audits - Perform internal access control reviews and spot audits to verify policy adherence and data protection standards. Reporting - Prepare executive-ready reports documenting security metrics, threat activity, and audit outcomes for leadership and senior IT staff. Required Qualifications & Skills - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a closely related field. - 5+ years of progressive experience in an information security role, including hands-on implementation of security controls. - Strong technical foundation in IT systems, network security, cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and infrastructure hardening. - Hands-on experience with endpoint protection platforms, SIEM solutions, and log analysis. - Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and authentication frameworks. - Proficiency with compliance frameworks: GDPR, US data privacy laws, HIPAA, SOC 2, and CIS Controls. - Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, SANS GIAC, or equivalent. - Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and written/verbal communication skills. - Proven ability to work independently across remote or distributed teams. - Sound judgment, high integrity, and a self-motivated approach to continuous learning. - Flexibility to adjust to different priorities quickly

Key Responsibilities Architecture & Scaling: Design, configure, and maintain high-end NetApp ONTAP multinode clusters (AFF/ASA) ensuring non-disruptive expansions, hardware refreshes, and firmware upgrades. Large-Scale Data Management: Architect and optimize FlexGroup volumes to manage massive unstructured datasets and billions of files efficiently. Performance Optimization: Provision, monitor, and tune multi-protocol storage access including NFSv4, SMB, and high-performance SAN (NVMe/FC, iSCSI). Data Protection & Cyber Resilience: Implement and manage advanced data protection frameworks including SnapMirror, SnapVault, and ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). Automation & Orchestration: Reduce operational overhead by developing and maintaining Ansible playbooks, Terraform scripts, and REST API workflows for storage provisioning and compliance monitoring. Capacity Planning & Observability: Utilize NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights (Cloud Insights) or Harvest/Grafana to proactively monitor performance bottlenecks and forecast multi-petabyte capacity growth. Required Skills & Qualifications Experience: Minimum 5+ years of dedicated experience managing enterprise-grade NetApp storage environments (1 PB+ scale required). ONTAP Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of NetApp ONTAP 9.x architecture, storage virtualization, FabricPool (on-prem object tiering), and clustering mechanics. Infrastructure as Code: Proven experience automating storage tasks using Ansible and interacting directly with NetApp REST APIs. Networking & Protocols: Deep understanding of enterprise networking, fabric switches (Cisco MDS/Brocade), and storage protocols (FCP, NVMe, NFS, SMB). Troubleshooting: Strong capability to diagnose complex performance latency issues across the stack (compute, fabric, and storage tier). Preferred Certifications but not required NCDA (NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP) NCIE (NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer — SAN or Data Protection)

We're hiring a senior AI developer to build and deploy AI solutions for a fintech/credit-union platform. The work spans autonomous banking agents, fraud detection, credit scoring, and bill-pay/invoice automation — at the intersection of LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and financial-domain expertise, with security and compliance built in from the start. This is a long-term, ongoing engagement. What you'll do: AI agents & orchestration - Design, build, and deploy multi-agent systems using Amazon Bedrock Agents, LangChain, and related frameworks - Architect agentic workflows for core banking use cases: credit scoring, fraud detection, bill-pay automation, invoice management - Define agent personas, memory strategies, tool-use patterns, and escalation paths for production banking agents LLM engineering - Fine-tune, prompt-engineer, and evaluate LLMs for financial-domain tasks - Build RAG pipelines over credit-union knowledge bases, policy docs, and member data - Implement guardrails, content filtering, and compliance checks for safe, regulated outputs - Monitor performance, hallucination rates, and latency against SLAs Cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure) - Architect and manage AI/ML workloads on AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC) and Azure (OpenAI Service, Azure ML, AKS) - Design secure, cost-optimized environments compliant with NCUA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 - Implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or AWS CDK DevOps & MLOps - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CodePipeline, Azure DevOps) - Containerize services with Docker, orchestrate with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) - Apply MLOps best practices: model versioning, A/B testing, canary deployments, automated rollback - Stand up observability with logging, tracing, and alerting Python development - Write clean, well-tested Python for AI pipelines, REST APIs, and data workflows - Build FastAPI/Flask microservices exposing agent capabilities to frontend and core banking systems - Integrate with financial data sources, core banking APIs, and third-party fintech services Banking applications - Build credit-scoring models using alternative data and explainable AI (XAI) - Develop real-time fraud detection with behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and auto-decisioning - Create conversational agents for bill pay, account management, and member self-service - Automate invoice workflows: extraction, classification, approval routing, reconciliation - Partner with compliance/risk to keep AI decisions auditable, fair, and regulatory-compliant What you should have: - 5+ years software engineering; 3+ years in AI/ML or LLM engineering - 2+ years building AI for banking, credit unions, or financial services - Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, Python, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code - Working knowledge of NCUA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GLBA, and Fair Lending requirements - Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field Nice to have: - AWS or Azure AI/ML certifications - Open-source LLM experience (Llama, Mistral, Phi) and self-hosted inference (vLLM, Ollama) - Vector databases (Pinecone, OpenSearch, pgvector) - Graph-based fraud networks and graph ML - AI governance / responsible AI framework experience - Prior work at a credit union, community bank, or fintech lending platform To apply, please share: - Your resume highlighting AI and banking project experience - A brief note on your most impactful AI agent or LLM project in a financial-services context - Links to GitHub, portfolio, or published papers (optional but encouraged)