Splunk SIEM Engineer Harrisburg, PA

American Business Solutions Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

American Business Solutions Inc. is seeking an experienced SIEM Engineer to design, configure, and optimize the enterprise SIEM environment.

You will onboard data sources, develop detection content, and integrate with security tools and cloud platforms to strengthen threat detection and incident response capabilities. You will collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, networking, and application teams while following security standards and change-management processes to ensure reliable

Qualifications

• 3+ years supporting SIEM, security engineering, or security monitoring.
• Hands-on Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security administration.
• Onboarding/integrating security log sources via syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud.
• Familiarity with NIST and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Experience in large enterprise or government environments.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk).
• Onboard data sources; ensure logs are collected, parsed, indexed, and retained.
• Develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, apps, and infra.
• Monitor performance, capacity, availability, and health; troubleshoot issues.
• Tune alerts/detection logic to reduce false positives and improve monitoring.
• Support SOC analysts with queries, dashboards, and investigations.
• Assist with upgrades, patches, and configuration changes in SIEM infra.
• Document procedures, configurations, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Collaborate with SOC, infra, cloud, networking, and apps teams on SIEM initiatives.
• Adhere to Commonwealth security standards and change-management policies.

Skills

SIEM security

Security engineering

Cybersecurity operations

Security monitoring

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Job description

Complete Description 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

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 andr equirements.

Required/Desired Skills Skill Required/Desired Amount of Experience

Professional IT experience including at least three years supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring tech Required 3.0 Years Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security. Required 3.0 Years Demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration Required 3.0 Years Certifications: 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