OA-EISO-FA3 A4 SC2

RICEFW Technologies Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

RiceFW Technologies Inc is seeking a SIEM Engineer to support the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's security operations. You will design, configure, and optimize the SIEM, focusing on Splunk Enterprise, data onboarding, and alerting.

You will collaborate with SOC, infra, cloud, and app teams, maintaining documentation and contributing to threat detection efforts. Hybrid onsite 3 days/week in Harrisburg, PA.

Qualifications

• Professional IT experience with at least 3 years supporting SIEM or security monitoring.
• Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or ES.
• Onboarding and integrating security log sources (syslog, APIs, agents, cloud).
• Splunk certification: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin is preferred.
• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, and reports is a plus.
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk).
• Onboard data sources; ensure proper collection, parsing, and indexing.
• Develop alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, and apps.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and health; troubleshoot issues.
• Tune alerts to reduce false positives and improve monitoring.
• Support SOC analysts with queries, dashboards, and investigations.
• Assist upgrades, patches, and configuration changes; document procedures.

Skills

SIEM experience

Splunk Enterprise

Log source onboarding

Splunk Admin cert

SPL searches

SIEM troubleshooting

NIST & MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

AM-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 andrequirements.

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 integration
• Required3YearsCertifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
• Highly 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