Incident Response Engineer — Threat Hunting & Splunk Analytics

Piper Companies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking an Incident Response Engineer to join a leading cybersecurity-focused organization. The role focuses on detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents across complex enterprise environments, including endpoints, networks, and cloud.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in incident response, hands-on Splunk SPL, and experience with UEBA and CSIRT operations. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and a salary range of $130,000–$160,000,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience focusing on incident response and threat investigations.
• Strong hands-on Splunk experience with SPL querying, dashboards, and detection engineering.
• Experience with UEBA solutions and behavioral analytics platforms.
• Proven threat hunting methodologies and investigation techniques.
• Experience supporting or operating within a CSIRT environment.
• Knowledge of endpoint, network, cloud, and identity-based attack vectors.
• Familiarity with digital forensics, malware analysis, and threat intelligence processes.
• Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, CISSP or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity incidents across endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and enterprise applications.
• Perform proactive threat hunting to identify indicators of compromise and emerging threats.
• Utilize UEBA platforms to detect anomalous user and entity behavior and validate events.
• Develop and optimize SPL queries, dashboards, alerts, and reports within Splunk.
• Conduct forensic investigations and root cause analyses after security incidents.
• Collaborate with CSIRT, SOC, and engineering teams to coordinate incident response.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Splunk SPL

UEBA platforms

CSIRT experience

Investigation techniques

Tools

Splunk

SIEM

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking an Incident Response Engineer to join a leading cybersecurity-focused organization. The role focuses on detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents across complex enterprise environments, including endpoints, networks, and cloud.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in incident response, hands-on Splunk SPL, and experience with UEBA and CSIRT operations. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and a salary range of $130,000–$160,000,