IT Security SIEM Engineer (Splunk Experience is Required) - Hybrid Role in New York City
CV-NYC-SIEM/Splunk-NYC - New York, NY - Contracted
Strong Splunk experience is mandatory.
Prior NYC government is highly preferred.
Candidates must be within a commutable distance to New York City (10038)
This job is onsite in NYC 3 days/week and remote the other 2 days
Interviews will be onsite
This is a 12-month contract to start
We are seeking an IT Security SIEM Engineer with strong hands-on experience administering and engineering Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud environments. This role combines SIEM engineering, security monitoring, scripting, automation, endpoint security, and incident response to help strengthen and support a large enterprise cybersecurity environment. The ideal candidate will have experience developing Splunk dashboards, onboarding log sources, building detection logic, and automating security operations using PowerShell, Python, or Bash. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days onsite and 2 days remote in New York City.
Key Responsibilities
Engineer, administer, and support Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud environments.
Develop Splunk dashboards, reports, alerts, searches, and detection logic for security monitoring and operations.
Onboard, normalize, and analyze logs from applications, databases, networks, cloud platforms, and endpoints.
Investigate security events and support incident response, threat detection, and security monitoring activities.
Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, Python, and/or Bash to improve operational efficiency.
Support endpoint security, vulnerability remediation, patch validation, and security configuration management.
Monitor infrastructure, network, and security logs while supporting compliance reporting, audits, and security documentation.
Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve enterprise cybersecurity capabilities.