OA-EISO-FA3 A4 SC2

Software Technology Inc; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Software Technology Inc. seeks an experienced SIEM engineer to support the Commonwealth's SIEM environment. Hybrid work arrangement is available with three onsite days per week at the Harrisburg location.

The contractor will design, configure, and optimize the SIEM platform, focusing on Splunk, data ingestion, detection rules, and incident response support. Responsibilities include onboarding data sources, developing dashboards, tuning alerts, and ensuring log retention and health of the SIEM.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in SIEM, security engineering, or security monitoring
• Experience administering Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ES
• Experience onboarding security log sources (syslog, APIs, agents, cloud integrations)
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
• Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certification highly desired

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk and related security tech)
• Onboard new data sources and ensure logs are collected, parsed, and indexed
• Develop correlations, alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, and health of the SIEM
• Tune alerts to reduce false positives and improve detection
• Support SOC analysts and incident response with queries and dashboards
• Assist with upgrades, patches, and SIEM infrastructure changes
• Document procedures and knowledge bases
• Collaborate with SOC, networks, cloud, and app teams on SIEM initiatives

Job description

AM-Brian Gross

Work Location: Hybrid onsite 3 days/week at 5th Floor Keystone Building | Harrisburg, PA 17120
Interview Type: In-person
Provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment. The contractor will support the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities. This position reports to the Director and provides hands‑on technical support for the SIEM environment. Strategic direction, governance, and overall program oversight remain with the Director

Duties

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 andr equirements.

Required/Desired Skills

SkillRequired /DesiredAmountof ExperienceProfessional IT experience including at least three years supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring techRequired3YearsExperience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.Required3YearsDemonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integrationRequired3YearsCertifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified AdminHighly desired0Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment.Highly desired0Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports.Highly desired0Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues.Highly desired0Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE ATT&CK.Highly desired0

QuestionsNo.QuestionQuestion1Do you understand, and will abide by, the provision in your subcontract with OST that it is PROHIBITED for government equipment to be taken or used outside of the United States by your contractors? The consequences of this occurring can and will result in repercussions to you, the prime vendor, regardless if the candidate works for a sub-vendor of yours. It will also result in immediate termination of the contractor, and make them ineligible for rehire in the program.Question2Vendor rate is $$$Question3Where does your candidate currently reside?Question4Is your candidate able to interview in-person as requested?