Hybrid Splunk & SOC Engineer - Secret Clearance

Piper Companies; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Engineer / SOC Engineer to support enterprise security monitoring and analytics across a fast-paced environment. This full-time hybrid role requires 2 days onsite weekly in North Carolina and a Secret clearance to be eligible.

You will develop and optimize detections, dashboards, and data pipelines in Splunk, collaborate with SOC analysts and cloud teams, and participate in incident investigations as needed.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in SIEM engineering, security operations, or incident response environments.
• Strong proficiency with Splunk, including writing complex SPL queries and building production-grade dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with data normalization, ingestion, and troubleshooting within Splunk Enterprise or Splunk ES.
• Experience integrating and onboarding security data sources into a centralized SIEM platform.
• Familiarity with integrating tools such as AWS Security Hub or similar cloud-native security services.
• Strong understanding of Splunk knowledge objects, field extractions, lookups, and CIM normalization.
• Ability to perform effectively in high-pressure incident response situations and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, and optimizing Splunk Security detections, dashboards, and correlation searches.
• Onboarding, parsing, normalizing, and enriching diverse security data sources into Splunk.
• Troubleshooting ingestion pipelines, forwarder connectivity, indexing issues, and search performance challenges.
• Assisting with configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting across distributed Splunk environments.
• Leveraging data models and accelerated searches to improve detection performance and reporting efficiency.
• Collaborating with SOC analysts and engineering teams to enhance threat detection, visibility, and response workflows.
• Participating in incident response activities, including deep-dive investigations into security alerts.

Skills

SIEM engineering

Incident response

On-call rotations

Tools

Splunk

SPL

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk ES

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Engineer / SOC Engineer to support enterprise security monitoring and analytics across a fast-paced environment. This full-time hybrid role requires 2 days onsite weekly in North Carolina and a Secret clearance to be eligible.

You will develop and optimize detections, dashboards, and data pipelines in Splunk, collaborate with SOC analysts and cloud teams, and participate in incident investigations as needed.