Senior Splunk Engineer - On-site SIEM & Threat Detection

Piper Companies; Newington (VA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Medical

Dental

401K

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to support a cybersecurity program focused on enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. This on-site role is in Newington, VA, and requires a TS/SCI clearance.

You will design, administer, and optimize Splunk environments to enhance security visibility and detection capabilities. Responsibilities include deploying Splunk Enterprise, developing correlation searches and dashboards, onboarding data, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Splunk engineering, SIEM administration, or security operations.
• Hands-on with Splunk Enterprise, log management, event correlation, and alert tuning.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; TS/SCI clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, administer, and maintain Splunk Enterprise in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Develop and optimize correlation searches, dashboards, data models, detection content, and alerting capabilities.
• Lead data onboarding efforts, including parsing, normalization, CIM mapping, and integration of security and operational data sources.
• Perform system health checks, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and platform optimization.
• Collaborate with SOC, Threat Intelligence, and Security Engineering teams to improve threat detection and incident response operations.

Skills

Splunk engineering

SIEM administration

Security monitoring

Threat detection

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to support a cybersecurity program focused on enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. This on-site role is in Newington, VA, and requires a TS/SCI clearance.

You will design, administer, and optimize Splunk environments to enhance security visibility and detection capabilities. Responsibilities include deploying Splunk Enterprise, developing correlation searches and dashboards, onboarding data, and