SIEM Security Engineer
Hybrid
Description:
Diversified Systems is searching for a SIEM Security Engineer to provide specialized engineering support for the Commonwealth's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) environment. This position will support the design, configuration, integration, optimization, and ongoing operation of the enterprise SIEM platform to strengthen security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and log management capabilities.
This position reports to the Director and provides hands-on technical support for the SIEM environment. Strategic direction, governance, and overall program oversight remain with the Director.
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.
Requirements:
- 3 years of professional IT experience including supporting SIEM, security engineering, cybersecurity operations, or security monitoring technologies required.
- 3 years of experience administering or engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Enterprise Security required.
- 3 years of demonstrated experience onboarding and integrating security log sources using technologies such as syslog, APIs, agents, or cloud-native integrations required.
Desired Skills:
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certification highly desired.
- Experience supporting a large enterprise or government environment highly desired.
- Experience developing SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and reports highly desired.
- Experience troubleshooting complex SIEM, logging, data ingestion, or integration issues highly desired.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST and MITRE Telecommunication&CK highly desired.
About Diversified Systems
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.
Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.
