Cyber Security Engineer - Splunk

Position: Cyber Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Experience Level: 5+ Years

Job Type: Full-time

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled Cyber Security Engineer with strong expertise in Splunk and a solid understanding of data engineering principles. The ideal candidate will have experience in designing and implementing Splunk dashboards, managing large-scale data ingestion, performing data integrity checks, and transforming raw data into actionable insights to support cyber defense initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports
  
  for monitoring and incident response.
• Develop and optimize Splunk SPL (Search Processing Language) queries to support detection use cases.
• Lead and manage data ingestion pipelines, ensuring reliable and secure data flow from multiple sources into Splunk.
• Perform data transformation, normalization, and enrichment to enable efficient security analytics.
• Conduct regular data integrity and quality checks, and troubleshoot ingestion issues.
• Collaborate with security analysts, incident responders, and threat intelligence teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
• Implement and maintain security monitoring tools and integrations across hybrid cloud environments.
• Ensure data governance and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with

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  Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Proficiency in SPL (Search Processing Language) for developing complex queries and use cases.
• Experience with dashboard creation, reporting, and visualization in Splunk.
• Background in data engineering understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes, and big data frameworks is preferred.
• Expertise in data ingestion methodologies, including onboarding logs and event data from various systems.
• Knowledge of data transformation techniques, such as field extractions, lookups, and macros.
• Familiarity with security concepts such as SIEM, threat detection, incident response, and compliance.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages like Python or Shell for automation and integration.