Job title: Splunk Engineer

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 plus £5,400 car allowance and 3% flex account

Candidates must be willing and eligible to go through SC security clearance for this role.

We are recruiting for a Splunk Engineer to join a well-established Cyber Security Operations team in the Aerospace, Defence and Security Sector.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

The successful candidate's primary responsibility is to maintain the health of the Security technology stack; implementing and assisting the SOC Analysts in support of the MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider) services to the customer.

You will need to possess a well-rounded networking background as you will be responsible for performing extensive troubleshooting of security and SIEM based technologies including Splunk in our fast-paced SOC environment.

Essential Skills

• Splunk is essential for this role, we require a candidate who holds the Splunk Cloud Certified Admin Certificate or Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Certificate. Azure Sentinel or IBM QRadar are desirable but not essential.
• The successful candidate must be in a Security Engineering role currently or have previously been in that role. You will need to be able to demonstrate through your experience operating at this Senior Level (Security incident response, code / malware analysis, Strong coding skills, Effective SIEM design, setup, configuration, and tuning)
• Security Solution design experience - a successful candidate must be able to demonstrate how to design a security solution, with 'security in mind' based on customer requirements as per the aforementioned SIEM tools.
• AWS and Azure skill - a successful candidate must hold appropriate certifications including firsthand experience using AWS and Azure.