SIEM Engineer (Splunk) - Threat Detection & Incident Response

AiQualTest LLC; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AiQualTest LLC in Harrisburg, PA is seeking a SIEM Engineer to provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's SIEM environment. The contractor will design, configure, integrate, optimize, and operate the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities.

This role reports to the Director and requires hands-on support, collaboration with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and networking teams, and adherence to

Qualifications

• Provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's SIEM environment.
• Support design, configuration, integration, optimization, and operation of the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities.
• Collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, networking and applications teams on SIEM‐related initiatives.

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.

Skills

Splunk

Security monitoring

Incident response

Log management

Threat detection

Tools

Splunk

Job description

AiQualTest LLC in Harrisburg, PA is seeking a SIEM Engineer to provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's SIEM environment. The contractor will design, configure, integrate, optimize, and operate the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities.

This role reports to the Director and requires hands-on support, collaboration with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and networking teams, and adherence to