Security Engineering

Software Technology Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Software Technology Inc. is seeking a SIEM Engineer for a 6-month contract in Harrisburg, PA. Hybrid onsite 3 days per week.

The role focuses on engineering, configuring, and maintaining the enterprise SIEM (Splunk) to strengthen monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management. The candidate will onboard data sources, develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports, and integrate SIEM with security tools and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting SIEM, security engineering, or security monitoring tech.
• Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration.
• Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certification.
• Experience in large enterprise or government environments.
• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM or data ingestion issues.
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimise the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk) and related security tech.
• Onboard new data sources ensuring logs are collected, parsed, indexed, and retained.
• Develop correlations, alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, apps, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
• Monitor SIEM performance, capacity, availability, and health; troubleshoot issues.
• Tune alerts and detection logic to reduce false positives and improve monitoring.
• Support SOC analysts with queries, dashboards, and investigative capabilities.
• Assist upgrades, patches, and changes to SIEM infrastructure.

Skills

SPL searches

Security monitoring

Incident response

SIEM engineering

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Syslog integration

Job description

Location: 5th Floor Keystone Building | Harrisburg, PA 17120 (Hybrid onsite 3 days/week)

Duration: 6-Month Contract

Provide specialised engineering support for the Commonwealth's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment. The contractor will support the design, configuration, integration, optimisation, 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 programme oversight remain with the director.

Duties

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimise the enterprise SIEM platform, including Splunk and related security technologies.
• Onboard new data sources and ensure logs are properly collected, parsed, normalised, 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 and requirements.

Required Skill:

• Professional IT experience, including at least three years supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring tech – Required 3 Years
• Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security. – Required 3 Years
• Demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration – Required 3 Years
• Certifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin – Required
• Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment. – Required
• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports. – Required
• Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues. – Required
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE ATT&CK. – Required