Senior Splunk & UBA Detection Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions seeks a Detection Engineer in Bethesda, MD to join the Cyber Security Ops team. The role focuses on Splunk monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and security automation for a federal healthcare client.

The candidate will develop dashboards, alerts, KO objects, and run analyst trainings while collaborating with leadership and stakeholders to strengthen security posture.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• At least 5 years of strong problem-solving capabilities and the ability to effectively communicate solutions.
• One or more certifications in information security (such as GCIA, GCIH, CEH, CISSP, SSCP, Sec+, etc)
• Strong understanding of Adversary TTPs, Network & Host Security
• At least 5 years of Splunk and SIEM experience
• At least 3 years of Endpoint/host forensics experience
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills (command of English language)
• Strong written and verbal skills to effectively communicate at all levels in government and industry.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate Splunk application monitoring tool as part of the client Cybersecurity network and application audit and monitoring program within the TMIR team.
• Apply strategic, operational, and tactical cyber intelligence to improve security operations.
• Lead and/or support efforts to prepare for, monitor, detect, analyze/confirm, contain, remediate, and recover from security incidents
• Develop & Implement Actionable Alerts and Workflow for Splunk as a CISO Monitoring tool
• Develop and Implement Apps & Knowledge Objects (KO) like Dashboards, Reports, Data Models
• Provide Analyst training and workshops on using Splunk
• Develop and implement automation and efficiencies with Splunk
• Communicate with customer stakeholders to include leadership, support teams, and system administrators.

Skills

Problem solving

Strong communication

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Customer service focus

Self-motivation

Organizational skills

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Office

Job description

Edgewater Federal Solutions seeks a Detection Engineer in Bethesda, MD to join the Cyber Security Ops team. The role focuses on Splunk monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, and security automation for a federal healthcare client.

The candidate will develop dashboards, alerts, KO objects, and run analyst trainings while collaborating with leadership and stakeholders to strengthen security posture.