Contract Cybersecurity Engineer: SIEM & Incident Response

Info Origin Inc; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Info Origin Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer III for an onsite contractual role in Richmond, VA. You will lead threat detection, monitoring, and incident response efforts to safeguard critical systems and data.

The role emphasizes hands-on Splunk management, log integration across SIEM, and development of use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK. Collaboration with IT and network teams is essential to remediate threats and ensure audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience with threat detection and incident response.
• Strong incident response capabilities.
• Familiarity with SIEM tools, especially Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Threat Detection & Monitoring: Continuously monitor network traffic, endpoint logs, and cloud security events for anomalous behavior and potential security incidents.
• Splunk Management: Create, maintain, and tune Splunk correlation searches, alerts, and dashboards to minimize false positives and improve detection capabilities.
• Incident Response: Investigate potential security incidents, follow forensic evidence, and collaborate with IT and network teams to remediate threats.
• Use Case Development: Develop and refine detection and response playbooks based on threat intelligence and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• Log Integration: Work with infrastructure teams to onboard new data sources, ensuring log integrity, parsing, and normalization across the SIEM platform.
• Compliance & Reporting: Support audit readiness by collecting SIEM control evidence and generating compliance reports aligned with internal policies and standards.

Skills

Threat Detection

Incident Response

Security Monitoring

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Info Origin Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer III for an onsite contractual role in Richmond, VA. You will lead threat detection, monitoring, and incident response efforts to safeguard critical systems and data.

The role emphasizes hands-on Splunk management, log integration across SIEM, and development of use cases aligned with MITRE ATT&CK. Collaboration with IT and network teams is essential to remediate threats and ensure audit readiness.