SIEM Engineer

SIEM Engineer

Job ID: 2618060

Location: Washington, DC, United States

Date Posted: Oct 16, 2026

Category: Cyber

Subcategory: Cyber GRC

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Hybrid

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Job Description

Description

SIEM Engineer

SAIC is seeking a SIEM Engineer to support enterprise cybersecurity operations and the modernization of the agency''s security monitoring and analytics capabilities. This position is responsible for administering, engineering, and optimizing enterprise Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms within a mission-critical federal environment.

The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on SIEM administration experience with engineering and architectural knowledge. The successful candidate should be capable of independently troubleshooting complex technical problems, improving platform performance and reliability, and contributing to the design of scalable SIEM solutions. Strong analytical skills, technical curiosity, initiative, and a commitment to continuous improvement are essential.

HYBRID: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, engineer, and optimize enterprise SIEM platforms, including Splunk Enterprise, Splunk ES, and Elastic / Elastic Security, ensuring 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/Forwarding, SIEM agents and forwarders, network devices, security technologies, applications, databases, and cloud services.
• Onboard and normalize security telemetry, ensuring accurate 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, 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 path, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions to improve 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, SOPs, and migration procedures, while providing technical guidance to other team members.
• Evaluate emerging SIEM technologies and capabilities, identify opportunities for engineering improvements, and recommend solutions that improve performance, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Take ownership of assigned technical initiatives, communicate progress and risks, and independently drive technical issues and projects through resolution.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Bachelor''s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline; OR equivalent relevant IT/cybersecurity experience.

• 9+ years of relevant IT or cybersecurity experience, including at least 3 years of hands-on SIEM administration, engineering, or enterprise logging experience.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship.

• Demonstrated experience administering, engineering, or troubleshooting enterprise SIEM platforms, with hands-on experience in 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, retention, and performance optimization.

• Proficiency with 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/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 or automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, or comparable technologies.

• Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity technologies such as 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 ability to learn new technologies while adapting to evolving enterprise requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical solutions and collaborate effectively with technical teams and leadership..

Preferred Qualifications

• 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, including data source migration, detection migration, and operational validation.

• Advanced experience with Splunk Enterprise / Splunk ES, including distributed architectures, CIM, search optimization, and platform administration.

• Experience with security detection engineering, correlation rules, alert tuning, MITRE ATT&CK, or security analytics development.

• Familiarity with configuration management, Infrastructure-as-Code, 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.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

Overview

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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