Security/Splunk Engineer

Post Date

Sep 09, 2025

Location

Chicago,
Illinois

ZIP/Postal Code

60661
US
Nov 14, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Security Engineering

Req #

CHI-e43fc6d9-4306-42bf-b313-74979621d62f

Pay Rate

$51 - $64 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

We’re seeking a data-driven professional with deep Splunk expertise to analyze and visualize security-related datasets, automate workflows, and support incident response. This role blends technical rigor with strategic insight across cybersecurity, scripting, and data integration.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop SPL queries and dashboards to extract insights from complex datasets
• Analyze structured/unstructured data for security and compliance use cases
• Automate data workflows using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Linux scripting
• Integrate Splunk with tools like ServiceNow, Elastic, and cloud platforms
• Support KPI reporting, metrics tracking, and cross-functional collaboration
• Navigate Databricks and Oracle interfaces to access and interpret data

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Required Skills & Experience

- Write complex Splunk queries
- Using splunk logs not building splunk tool, it's already built
- Scripting knowledge, shell scripting
- Database querying, oracle database
- Query databricks

- Security engineer who can do some analysis based on the data and risk flows
- Provide insight into the patterns and trends
- Strong splunk experience
- Security cyber security incident response ideally
○ Cyber security concepts
- Mixed in engineering bc we need to build some tools based on splunk to visualize the data & investigate if we find malicious activity, dig into the data, make sense of the data, capture the malicious activity or do some analysis and come up with some conclusion with what’s happening.
- Strong comm
- Strong splunk

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.