Splunk / SOC Engineer

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 in a hybrid model: 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr