Splunk SIEM Engineer

V Group Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

The Pennsylvania Office of Administration (OA) seeks a Splunk SIEM Engineer to design, configure, and optimize the enterprise SIEM environment. You will onboard data sources, develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports to strengthen security monitoring, incident response, and log management across the Commonwealth.

You will support SOC analysts and collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and networking teams while adhering to Commonwealth security standards and

Qualifications

• Experience administering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security (3+ years).
• Experience onboarding security log sources using syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration.
• Certification: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
• Experience in large enterprise or government environment.
• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports.
• Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues.
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk).
• Onboard data sources and ensure logs are collected, parsed, indexed, and retained.
• Develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports for security monitoring.
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Monitor SIEM performance, capacity, availability, and health; troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Splunk SPL searches

Dashboards development

Incident response support

Security monitoring

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Syslog integration

APIs integration

Cloud integration

Job description

End Client: Pennsylvania Office of Administration (OA)

Provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment. The contractor will support the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the SIEM platform to strengthen enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities. This position reports to the Director and provides hands‑on technical support for the SIEM environment. Strategic direction, governance, and overall program oversight remain with the Director

Job Title: Splunk SIEM Engineer

Duration: 12+Months

Location: Harrisburg, PA 17101 (Hybrid)

Position Type: Contract

Interview Type: Webcam or In-Person

Ceipal ID: SPA_SIEM707_MA

Requirement ID: OA-EISO-FA3 A4 SC2 (813707)

Duties

• 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.
• Collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, networking, and application teams on SIEM‑related initiatives.
• Follow Commonwealth security standards, change‑management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

Skills

• Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security Required – 3 Years
• Demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud‑native integration Required – 3 Years
• Certification: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Highly Desired
• Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment Highly Desired
• Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports Highly Desired
• Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues Highly Desired
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE ATT&CK Highly Desired