Hybrid Splunk / SOC Engineer — Threat Detection & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k

PTO and holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

Piper Companies seeks a Splunk Engineer to support enterprise security monitoring and analytics in a fast-paced environment. The role is hybrid (2 days onsite) and requires a Secret clearance to be eligible.

The engineer will develop detections, dashboards, and data ingestion pipelines, onboarding diverse sources, and collaborate with SOC analysts and cloud teams to improve threat detection and visibility.

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

Security operations

Incident response

SPL queries

Dashboard development

Data onboarding

CIM normalization

On-call readiness

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk ES

SPL

Forwarders

AWS Security Hub

Job description

Piper Companies seeks a Splunk Engineer to support enterprise security monitoring and analytics in a fast-paced environment. The role is hybrid (2 days onsite) and requires a Secret clearance to be eligible.

The engineer will develop detections, dashboards, and data ingestion pipelines, onboarding diverse sources, and collaborate with SOC analysts and cloud teams to improve threat detection and visibility.