Cloud Security (Splunk)

ZealHire Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. in Harrisburg, PA, is seeking an experienced Cloud Security Engineer focused on Splunk for a 3-month hybrid engagement. You will design, configure, and optimize the SIEM infrastructure to strengthen security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.

You will onboard data sources, develop correlation searches and dashboards, support SOC analysts, and collaborate across security, cloud, and infrastructure teams while following client cybersecurity policies.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering with SIEM environments, especially Splunk.
• Ability to develop dashboards, alerts, and detection logic.
• Strong collaboration with SOC, infra, and cloud teams.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize the enterprise SIEM (Splunk).
• Onboard data sources and ensure proper log collection and retention.
• Develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports.
• Collaborate with SOC, infra, cloud, and networks on SIEM initiatives.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Security monitoring

Log management

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Role: Cloud Security (Splunk)
Location: Harrisburg, PA (Hybrid)

Need local to Harrisburg, PA

Duration: 3 Months
Interview: In-Person

USC, GC, GC-EAD, H4-EAD

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Job Description:

• Provide specialized engineering support for the client Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment. The contractor will support the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities.
• This position reports to the Director and provides hands-on technical support for the SIEM environment. Strategic direction, governance, and overall program oversight remain with the Director

Duties

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform, including Splunk and related security technologies.
• Onboard new data sources and ensure logs are properly collected, parsed, normalized, indexed, and retained.
• Develop and maintain correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, reports, detection rules, and other security monitoring content.
• Integrate SIEM capabilities with security tools, cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, and other enterprise systems.
• Monitor SIEM platform performance, capacity, availability, and overall health and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Tune alerts and detection logic to reduce false positives and improve the effectiveness of security monitoring.
• Support SOC analysts and incident response personnel by providing technical expertise, queries, dashboards, and investigative capabilities.
• Support upgrades, patches, configuration changes, testing, and implementation of supporting SIEM infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation operational procedures, system configurations, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, networking, and application teams on SIEM-related initiatives.
• Follow client security standards, change-management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

Certifications:

• Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal