SOC Technical SME: SIEM & Incident Expert (Onsite Fort Meade)

Evans & Chambers; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Evans & Chambers is seeking a highly experienced Security Operations Center Technical SME to join our Fort Meade team. You will serve as the technical backbone of a 24/7 SOC, driving log analysis, SIEM tuning, detection engineering, and secure blue-team operations.

Responsibilities include optimizing SIEM platforms, developing detection content, guiding analysts, and collaborating with leadership to improve SOC effectiveness while staying current on evolving threats and best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline preferred.
• At least seven (7) years of information security experience in a SOC environment.
• Experience with SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Elastic, Sentinel) required; threat intel familiarity is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deeply analyze and interrogate logs across network, host, application, cloud, and identity sources to identify anomalies and indicators of compromise.
• Monitor, tune, and optimize SIEM platforms to improve detection fidelity and reduce false positives/negatives.
• Evaluate log volume, retention, and ingestion pipelines to ensure complete data coverage and identify blind spots.
• Develop, refine, and maintain correlation rules, use cases, and detection content aligned to threat intelligence techniques.
• Serve as escalation point for Tier 1/2 analysts on complex triage and incident analysis.
• Utilize and maintain proficiency across SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, threat intel platforms, and packet capture tools.
• Support containment, eradication, and recovery during security incidents as a senior technical responder.
• Collaborate with the SOC Program Manager to report on SOC metrics and detection coverage.
• Recommend and implement process improvements, automation, and playbooks to increase SOC efficiency.
• Stay current on emerging threats and adversary TTPs and translate intelligence into detection strategy.
• Mentor and upskill junior SOC analysts in log analysis and investigation techniques.

Skills

SIEM administration

Log analysis

Detection engineering

Security tools

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Splunk

QRadar

Elastic

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Evans & Chambers is seeking a highly experienced Security Operations Center Technical SME to join our Fort Meade team. You will serve as the technical backbone of a 24/7 SOC, driving log analysis, SIEM tuning, detection engineering, and secure blue-team operations.

Responsibilities include optimizing SIEM platforms, developing detection content, guiding analysts, and collaborating with leadership to improve SOC effectiveness while staying current on evolving threats and best practices.