Splunk and Splunk SOAR Security Engineer - Remote

Client's Security team is seeking a contract security engineer to take on day-to-day administration, engineering, and operational support for our Splunk Enterprise and Splunk SOAR environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain the Splunk Enterprise environment, including data onboarding, index and source type management, search head and indexer health, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain Splunk SOAR playbooks, manage app/connector integrations, and support automation of playbooks across the broader security stack.
• Troubleshoot data ingestion issues, support upgrades and patching.
• Work with the broader security engineering team to align Splunk/SOAR use cases with detection and response priorities and service delivery workflows.
• Document architecture, playbooks, and standard operating procedures to support knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• 3+ years hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise (indexers, search heads, forwarders, data onboarding).
• Direct experience building and maintaining Splunk SOAR playbooks.
• Direct experience integrating Splunk/SOAR with endpoint, vulnerability, or other security tools.
• Experience with REST API-based integrations.
• Experience troubleshooting issues related to API, network, authentication, and other integrations.
• Strong SPL skills, including correlation searches, dashboard/report development, and system health monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree: Cyber Security, Computer Science, MIS, or related discipline (Preferred) or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge.
• Splunk certifications (Core Certified Power User, Certified Admin, or SOAR-specific certs).
• Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell) to support custom SOAR app development or automation.
• Familiarity with security operations workflows: infrastructure build pipelines, alert triage, incident response, threat detection engineering.

Pay

$80.00 to $110.00/Hr

Schedule

• Duration: 24 Months
• Job Type: Temporary Assignment
• Work Type: Hybrid