Job Description

Summit Technologies, Inc. is seeking a SIEM Engineer to support our government client in enterprise cybersecurity operations and the modernization of the agency's security monitoring and analytics capabilities. In this role, you will administer, engineer, maintain, and optimize enterprise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms within a mission-critical federal environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on SIEM administration and engineering experience, strong knowledge of enterprise logging architectures, and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues while designing and implementing scalable, reliable security monitoring solutions.

The successful candidate will contribute to SIEM architecture and modernization initiatives, including the migration from Splunk to Elastic, while improving platform performance, data ingestion, security visibility, and detection capabilities. Strong analytical skills, technical initiative, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement are essential.

This is a full-time, hybrid position requiring on-site work three (3) days per week and remote work two (2) days per week. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust clearance.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, engineer, and optimize enterprise SIEM platforms, including Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), and Elastic / Elastic Security, ensuring platform availability, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Support SIEM architecture and modernization initiatives, including the transition from Splunk to Elastic, migration of data sources and security use cases, infrastructure design, testing, validation, and operational cutover.
• Design, configure, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise log collection and ingestion pipelines, including syslog, Windows Event Collection and Forwarding, SIEM agents and forwarders, network devices, security technologies, applications, databases, and cloud services.
• Onboard and normalize security telemetry, ensuring accurate data collection, parsing, enrichment, indexing, retention, and searchability using applicable standards such as Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) and Elastic Common Schema (ECS).
• Develop, maintain, migrate, and optimize SIEM searches, dashboards, reports, alerts, correlation rules, and security detections using SPL, SQL, and Elastic query technologies.
• Monitor and optimize SIEM infrastructure health, data ingestion performance, storage utilization, system capacity, and data availability while supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability requirements.
• Troubleshoot complex SIEM and logging issues across the complete data collection and ingestion pipeline, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions to improve platform reliability and operational effectiveness.
• Support SIEM architecture, configuration management, security hardening, change control, automation, and platform lifecycle management in accordance with enterprise and federal requirements.
• Collaborate with security analysts, infrastructure teams, application owners, and cybersecurity leadership to improve security visibility, detection capabilities, data quality, and operational reporting.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, configuration standards, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and migration procedures.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing to team members while supporting enterprise SIEM engineering and operational activities.
• Evaluate emerging SIEM technologies and capabilities, identify opportunities for engineering improvements, and recommend solutions that enhance performance, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Take ownership of assigned technical initiatives, communicate project progress and risks, and independently drive complex technical issues and projects through resolution.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; or equivalent relevant IT and cybersecurity experience, subject to client requirements.
• At least nine (9) years of relevant IT or cybersecurity experience, including a minimum of three (3) years of hands-on SIEM administration, engineering, or enterprise logging experience.
• Demonstrated experience administering, engineering, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise SIEM platforms, including hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and working knowledge of Elastic or comparable search and analytics technologies.
• Strong understanding of SIEM architecture, distributed systems, enterprise logging, data ingestion, parsing, normalization, indexing, data retention, and performance optimization.
• Proficiency in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL), working knowledge of SQL, and familiarity with Elastic query technologies such as KQL, ES|QL, EQL, or Query DSL.
• Experience onboarding and troubleshooting enterprise data sources, including Windows and Linux systems, network devices, security appliances, applications, and cloud environments.
• Strong Linux and Windows administration skills, including working knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, syslog, and related protocols.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, or comparable technologies.
• Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity technologies, including Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), firewalls, IDS/IPS, identity systems, vulnerability management, and security monitoring platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate complex technical problems, analyze data, identify root causes, and develop practical engineering solutions.
• Strong technical curiosity, initiative, accountability, and the ability to learn new technologies while adapting to evolving enterprise requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document technical solutions and collaborate effectively with technical teams and leadership.

Strongly Desired

• Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack / Elastic Security, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic Agent/Fleet, Beats, Logstash, and Elastic query technologies.
• Experience with distributed or cloud-based SIEM architectures, including clustering, high availability, disaster recovery, storage optimization, and capacity planning.
• Experience supporting enterprise SIEM migrations, particularly Splunk-to-Elastic migrations, including data source migration, detection migration, and operational validation.
• Advanced experience with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ES, including distributed architectures, CIM, search optimization, and platform administration.
• Experience with security detection engineering, correlation rules, alert tuning, MITRE ATT&CK, and security analytics development.
• Familiarity with configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, CI/CD, and automated platform deployments.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity operations within federal environments and familiarity with NIST, FISMA, OMB, and FedRAMP requirements.
• Relevant technical certifications, such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Elastic Certified Engineer, Security+, CISSP, or comparable certifications.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; or
• Equivalent relevant IT or cybersecurity experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree, subject to client requirements.

Security Clearance

• Candidates must be U.S. citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Public Trust clearance.
• Candidates must meet the client's applicable eligibility and background investigation requirements.

Application Instructions

If you feel you are qualified and want to be considered for this position, please submit the following information to fue9wcom651qpxxjb6a8ynnuwa@crelate.net, and include job number 6945 in the subject line:

• Updated resume, including MM/YYYY dates for each employer.
• Best dates and times for an interview, along with the phone number where you can be reached.
• Availability to start once a formal offer is received.

Summit Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.