Splunk / SOC Engineer - 174235 - 174717 - 175230

About the role

Piper Companies is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Engineer / SOC Engineer to support the development and optimization of enterprise security monitoring and analytics within a fast-paced environment. This role plays a critical part in enhancing detection capabilities, improving security visibility, and driving operational efficiency through Splunk engineering and automation. This is a full-time opportunity working closely with SOC analysts, cloud teams, and engineering stakeholders hybrid 2 days a week onsite. This position requires a Secret clearance in order to be eligible.

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining, and optimizing Splunk Security detections, dashboards, and correlation searches.
• Onboarding, parsing, normalizing, and enriching diverse security data sources into Splunk.
• Troubleshooting ingestion pipelines, forwarder connectivity, indexing issues, and search performance challenges.
• Assisting with configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting across distributed Splunk environments.
• Leveraging data models and accelerated searches to improve detection performance and reporting efficiency.
• Collaborating with SOC analysts and engineering teams to enhance threat detection, visibility, and response workflows.
• Participating in incident response activities, including deep-dive investigations into security alerts.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in SIEM engineering, security operations, or incident response environments.
• Strong proficiency with Splunk, including writing complex SPL queries and building production-grade dashboards.
• Hands-on experience with data normalization, ingestion, and troubleshooting within Splunk Enterprise or Splunk ES.
• Experience integrating and onboarding security data sources into a centralized SIEM platform.
• Familiarity with integrating tools such as AWS Security Hub or similar cloud-native security services.
• Strong understanding of Splunk knowledge objects, field extractions, lookups, and CIM normalization.
• Ability to perform effectively in high-pressure incident response situations and a willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

Compensation

Salary range: $100,000 - $120,000. Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO, holidays, and sick leave as required by law.