Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities.
Job Title: Splunk and Splunk SOAR Security Engineer
Location: Taylor TX 76574
Duration: 24 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- Client's Security team is seeking a contract security engineer to take on day-to-day administration, engineering, and operational support for our Splunk Enterprise and Splunk SOAR environments.
Responsibilities:
- The Client 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 Client '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
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Taylor, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $96.55–$120.68 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Application Integrationunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Authenticationunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Utilityunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Forwarderunmatched
- ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Knowledge Transferunmatched
- Management of Information Systems/Technology (MIS)unmatched
- Nonprofitunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Retailunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Service Deliveryunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Patchesunmatched
- Splunkunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- System Operationsunmatched
- Use Casesunmatched
- Windows PowerShellunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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