Sr Security Engineer with SPLUNK/SIEM/NIST/MITRE ATT&CK

I Link Communications Inc; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

I Link Communications Inc seeks a Security Engineer to support the SIEM environment, focusing on Splunk architecture, data onboarding, and monitoring. The role collaborates with SOC and infrastructure teams to improve threat detection and incident response.

Hybrid onsite work three days per week at the Keystone Building in Harrisburg, PA, with in-person interviews and a defined contract window through 12/31/2026.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in security engineering or cybersecurity operations
• Experience supporting SIEM/SPLUNK environments in enterprise settings
• Knowledge of security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response workflows

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and optimize the enterprise SIEM platform (Splunk) and related security technologies.
• Onboard new data sources; ensure logs are collected, parsed, indexed, and retained.
• Develop correlation searches, alerts, dashboards, reports, and detection rules.
• Integrate SIEM with security tools, cloud platforms, and applications.
• Monitor SIEM performance, capacity, health, and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

SIEM

Splunk

Security engineering

Incident response

Log management

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Job description

Security Engineer with SPLUNK/SIEM

Duration: 10/26/2026-12/31/2026
Work Location: Hybrid onsite 3 days/week at 5th Floor Keystone Building | Harrisburg, PA 17120
Interview Type: In-person

Provide specialized engineering support for the 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

• 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 security standards, change-management processes, and applicable cybersecurity policies and requirements.

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

Disclaimer: i-Link Solutions Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability.