Splunk Detection Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Work you'll do

As a Security Engineer III on the Government & Public Services team, you will be responsible for...

• The Splunk Detection Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, tuning, and maintaining Splunk-based detection content that enables SOC analysts to identify, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. This role focuses on converting threat intelligence, incident lessons learned, and operational requirements into actionable correlation searches, alerts, investigations, dashboards, and response workflows across IT, IoT, and OT environments.

• The engineer partners closely with SOC analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and infrastructure teams to improve detection fidelity, reduce false positives, document analyst response procedures, and continuously enhance the SOC's detection capability.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

• Ability to lead projects or workstreams

• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

• Ability to meet deadlines

• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree required.

• Active Secret Clearance required.

• Ability to work onsite in Herndon, VA up to 3 days a week.

• 2+ years of experience within the following:

• Hands-on experience developing and managing production Splunk detection content in a SOC environment.

• Strong proficiency with Splunk SPL.

• Experience creating and maintaining Splunk Enterprise Security correlation searches, notable events, or risk-based alerts.

• Experience designing actionable detections and tuning alerts to reduce false positives.

• Experience creating scheduled and ad hoc searches, dashboards, reports, and investigative queries.

• Experience with intrusion, detection, and incident response in a SOC environment.

• Knowledge of Splunk CIM, data models, event types, tags, field extractions, and severity criteria.

• Experience with Windows and Linux security telemetry and event collection.

• Ability to test, troubleshoot, document, and maintain detection content throughout its lifecycle.

• Ability to travel 15%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $97,900 to $163,100.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.