Senior SIEM Engineer – Splunk & Security Operations

TALENT Software Services; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT Software Services is seeking a SIEM Engineer to support design, configuration, and operation of the SIEM environment to strengthen enterprise security monitoring and incident response in a hybrid onsite setting.

You will onboard data sources, develop alerts and dashboards, and collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams. In-person interview and on-site work in Harrisburg, PA are required.

Qualifications

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

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 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 security standards, change-management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

Skills

SIEM engineering

Splunk Enterprise

Security monitoring

SPL searches

Incident response

Data onboarding

Log management

Education

Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin

Tools

Syslog

APIs

Cloud integration

Dashboards

Job description

Short Description:

Provide specialized engineering support for the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment.

Work Location:

Hybrid onsite 3 days/week at Harrisburg, PA 17120

Interview Type:

In-person

Complete Description:

The role involves supporting the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the SIEM platform to enhance 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 security standards, change-management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

Skills:

• Professional IT experience including at least three years supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring technology - Required


• Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security - Required


• Demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration - Required


• Certifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin - Highly desired


• Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment - Highly desired


• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports - Highly desired


• Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues - Highly desired


• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE Telecommunication&CK - Highly desired

Questions:

• Do you understand, and will abide by, the provision that it is prohibited for government equipment to be taken or used outside of the United States by your contractors?


• Where does your candidate currently reside?


• Is your candidate able to interview in-person as requested?