Security Engineer

Duties / 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.

·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.

Skill

Required/Desired

Required Experience

Professional IT experience, including at least three years supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring tech

Required - 3 Years

Experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.

Required - 3 Years

Demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integration

Required - 3 Years

Certifications: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin - Required

Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment.

Required

Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports.

Required

Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues.

Required

Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE ATT&CK.

Required