Splunk Security Engineer (Enterprise and SOAR)

Job Description

#### Job Description

JOB-2472

Hybrid: Austin Metro Area, TX (2 days onsite required)

Duration: 2 years

Seeking a contract Splunk Security Engineer to take on day-to-day administration, engineering, and operational support for our Splunk Enterprise and Splunk SOAR environments.  

**Responsibilities**  

The contractor will manage and maintain the Splunk Enterprise environment, including data onboarding, index and source type management, search head and indexer health, and performance tuning. On the SOAR side, they'll build and maintain playbooks, manage app/connector integrations, and support automation of playbooks across the broader security stack. The role also includes troubleshooting data ingestion issues, supporting upgrades and patching, and working with the broader security engineering team to align Splunk/SOAR use cases with company's detection and response priorities, and service delivery workflows. Documentation of architecture, playbooks, and standard operating procedures will be expected to support knowledge transfer.

**Required qualifications**  

· 3+ years hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise (indexers, search heads, forwarders, data onboarding)

· Direct experience building and maintaining Splunk SOAR playbooks

· Direct experience integrating Splunk/SOAR with endpoint, vulnerability, or other security tool

· Experience with REST API-based integrations

· Experience troubleshooting issues related to API, network, authentication and other integrations

· Strong SPL skills, including correlation searches, dashboard/report development, and system health monitoring

**Preferred qualifications**  

· Splunk certifications (Core Certified Power User, Certified Admin, or SOAR-specific certs)

· Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell) to support custom SOAR app development or automation

· Familiarity with security operations workflows: infrastructure build pipelines, alert triage, incident response, threat detection engineering

**Education**  

· Bachelor's Degree: Cyber Security, Computer Science, MIS, or related discipline (Preferred)

· or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required

**Benefits**  

The base pay range for this role is $90 - $120/hour.

MWResource offers medical, dental and vision coverage through Florida Blue, short- and long-term disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, and participation in the MWResource 401K plan for US based consultants.*Applications accepted on a rolling basis until filled.*
*MWResource does not discriminate based on race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or anything else that makes you part of any group.*  

*Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.*  
*Candidates will be required to pass a background check and drug screening.*  
*Please note we are not open to outsourcing our recruitment needs.*