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# Splunk / SOC Engineer

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Data Normalization, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Parsing, Security Information and Event Management, Systems Integration, Data Ingestion, Splunk
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9039705/splunk-soc-engineer

## About the Role

· 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.

## Description

is seeking a highly skilled 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 .

· 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.


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