Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Consultant - remote
Remote - offsite
Responsibilities
- Develop custom detection content: correlation searches, notable events, alerts, reports, and visualizations to surface threat activity
- Build and maintain Splunk Apps and Technology Add-ons (TAs)
- Onboard new data sources and normalize them to the Common Information Model (CIM)
- Optimize data flow and ingestion using aggregation, filtering, and pipeline tuning
- Configure notable event actions, action menus, and Adaptive Responses
- Tune detections to cut noise and surface what matters, including risk-based alerting where applicable
- Build dashboards that highlight anomalies, trends, and security and operational metrics
- Support and optimize large distributed clustered Splunk environments (search heads, indexers, forwarders, deployment servers)
- Partner with the client's security and SOC teams, debug complex integration and configuration issues
- Document processes, procedures, and key engineering decisions
Requirements
- Several years of hands-on Splunk experience, with real ES implementation, content development, and tuning
- Strong SPL and regular expressions
- Scripting in Python, Perl, or Bash
- Solid grasp of CIM and data onboarding and normalization at scale
- Experience supporting clustered Splunk environments in SOC or NOC settings
- SIEM data modeling experience on a platform at scale
- Proficiency in Linux, including editing and maintaining Splunk config files and apps
- Comfortable working consultatively with client teams and explaining the why behind the work
- Splunk certifications (Core Certified Consultant, ES Certified Admin, Architect) are a plus but not required
- Demonstrated ES delivery experience carries more weight than paper
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