Job#: 3036554 Job Description: SIEM Engineer
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland (Onsite)
Role Overview
Our organization is seeking a SIEM Engineer to support a critical enterprise migration from Splunk to Elastic. This role will serve as a senior analyst, responsible for developing queries, tuning alerts, and performing advanced analysis within a large-scale environment. The position involves translating existing security use cases, dashboards, and alerts while ensuring detection capabilities are maintained or improved throughout the transition.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior SIEM analyst leveraging Splunk, with responsibility for query development (SPL), alert tuning, correlation, and advanced analysis.
- Support and contribute to enterprise SIEM migration efforts from Splunk to Elastic, including translating use cases, dashboards, and alerts.
- Validate data ingestion pipelines and log sources during the migration to ensure fidelity.
- Leverage network monitoring and detection capabilities (netflow, PCAP, IDS) to identify adversary activity.
- Perform advanced log analysis, correlation, and threat detection across large-scale datasets.
- Discover adversary campaigns, anomalies, and inconsistencies across SIEM platforms.
- Support the development of cyber fusion frameworks aligned with best practices.
- Analyze and document malicious actor TTPs, mapping them to enterprise vulnerabilities.
- Produce detailed analytic reports and visualizations to communicate findings.
- Provide mitigation strategies to reduce risk and improve the enterprise security posture.
Required Qualifications
- An active IAT Level II or III Certification.
- Experience with Splunk, including SPL query development, dashboard creation, and alert tuning.
- Experience supporting or participating in SIEM platform migrations, preferably from Splunk to Elastic.
- Familiarity with Elastic/ELK Stack tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.
- Knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, OSI) and cyber threat methodologies.
- Experience analyzing netflow, PCAP, and custom application logging data.
- Experience with security tools such as Wireshark, passive DNS, and threat intelligence platforms.
- Experience with other SIEM tools like QRadar, Crowdstrike, or Microsoft Defender.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting DISN or DOW networks.
- Demonstrated experience building SIEM dashboards, analytics, and detection content in Splunk and/or Elastic.
- Hands-on experience with Splunk to Elastic migrations, data pipeline validation, or detection engineering conversions.
- Familiarity with intelligence-driven defense methodologies.
- IAT Level III and/or IAM Level II/III Certifications.
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