SIEM Engineer (Splunk) - Hybrid, 6-Month Contract

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

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.