Enterprise SIEM Engineer - Splunk & Threat Detection

Novalink Solutions LLC; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions LLC in Harrisburg, PA, seeks an experienced SIEM engineer to provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's SIEM environment. The contractor will design, configure, integrate, and operate the SIEM platform to strengthen threat detection, incident response, and log management.

The role reports to the Director and involves hands-on support, dashboards, correlation searches, and collaboration with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and networking teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting SIEM, security engineering, or security monitoring.
• Experience administering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Experience onboarding security log sources via syslog, APIs, or agents.
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Experience in large enterprise or government environments.

Responsibilities

• 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 Commonwealth security standards, change-management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

Skills

SIEM security operations

Splunk expert

Incident response support

Data source onboarding

Log analysis

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Syslog/APIs integration

Cloud data integration

Dashboards and alerts

Job description

Novalink Solutions LLC in Harrisburg, PA, seeks an experienced SIEM engineer to provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's SIEM environment. The contractor will design, configure, integrate, and operate the SIEM platform to strengthen threat detection, incident response, and log management.

The role reports to the Director and involves hands-on support, dashboards, correlation searches, and collaboration with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and networking teams.