Information and Event Management (SIEM) Consultant

Sarum LLC; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Sarum LLC seeks an experienced SIEM Consultant to engineer and operate a large enterprise SIEM environment, focusing on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security. You will onboard data sources, develop SPL queries, and build dashboards for threat detection and incident response in a government-scale setting.

The role emphasizes hands-on implementation, operational support, and collaboration with SOC, IT, cloud, and networking teams to meet security standards and governance requirements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of IT experience supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring technologies.
• 3+ years administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.
• 3+ years onboarding and integrating security log sources using syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integrations.

Responsabilités

• 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 SPL searches, correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM capabilities with security tools, cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Monitor SIEM platform performance, capacity, availability, and overall system health; troubleshoot technical issues.
• Tune alerts and detection logic to reduce false positives and improve threat detection effectiveness.
• Support SOC analysts and incident response teams by providing technical expertise, investigative queries, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
• Support SIEM upgrades, patches, configuration changes, testing, and implementation of supporting 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 procedures, and applicable cybersecurity policies.

Connaissances

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk ES

SIEM admin

Threat detection

Log ingestion

Incident response

Data integration

Dashboard alerts

Outils

Syslog

APIs

Agents

Cloud APIs

Description du poste

We are seeking an experienced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Consultant to provide specialized engineering and technical support for the Commonwealth's enterprise SIEM environment. The consultant will support the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the SIEM platform to strengthen security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and enterprise log management capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security, security log ingestion, detection engineering, and SIEM administration in a large enterprise or government environment.

This position reports to the Director and focuses on hands-on technical implementation and operational support. Strategic direction, governance, and overall program oversight will remain with the Director.

Key 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 SPL searches, correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM capabilities with security tools, cloud platforms, applications, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Monitor SIEM platform performance, capacity, availability, and overall system health; troubleshoot technical issues.
• Tune alerts and detection logic to reduce false positives and improve threat detection effectiveness.
• Support SOC analysts and incident response teams by providing technical expertise, investigative queries, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
• Support SIEM upgrades, patches, configuration changes, testing, and implementation of supporting 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 procedures, and applicable cybersecurity policies.

Required Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional IT experience supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring technologies.
• At least 3 years of experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.
• At least 3 years of experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integrations.

Desired Qualifications

• Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certification.
• Experience supporting large enterprise or government IT environments.
• Hands-on experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports.
• Strong troubleshooting skills involving SIEM platforms, log ingestion, data parsing, and system integrations.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and methodologies, including NIST and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience supporting Security Operations Center (SOC) operations, threat detection, and incident response.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.