Senior Splunk Detection Engineer | 12 Month ContractPathway Search – Sydney Western Suburbs NSWA major infrastructure organisation in Western Sydney is seeking a Senior Splunk Detection Engineer for a 12 month contract.
You will lead an uplift of its Splunk security monitoring and detection capability across enterprise, cloud and operational technology (OT) environments.Essential technical skillsSplunk Enterprise administration, including data onboarding, indexing and search optimisationAdvanced Search Processing Language (SPL) for searches, dashboards, reports and security detectionsHands‐on ES configuration, tuning and operational supportCreating, tuning and maintaining correlation searches that find real threats while minimising false positivesImplementing and managing Risk‐Based Alerting (RBA) methodologiesES content management across detection rules, notable event management, security use cases and content lifecycleA major infrastructure organisation in Western Sydney is seeking a Senior Splunk Detection Engineer for a 12 month contract.
You will lead an uplift of its Splunk security monitoring and detection capability across enterprise, cloud and operational technology (OT) environments.Essential technical skillsSplunk Enterprise administration, including data onboarding, indexing and search optimisationAdvanced Search Processing Language (SPL) for searches, dashboards,



reports and security detectionsSplunk Enterprise SecurityHands‐on ES configuration, tuning and operational supportCreating, tuning and maintaining correlation searches that find real threats while minimising false positivesImplementing and managing Risk‐Based Alerting (RBA) methodologiesES content management across detection rules, notable event management, security use cases and content lifecycleData and normalisationStrong Common Information Model (CIM) mapping to support data normalisation and effective security contentDesigning, maintaining and optimising Splunk data models, including data model accelerationDetection and threat analysisThreat hunting using threat intelligence, behavioural analytics and hypothesis‐driven methodsThreat modelling to identify threats, attack paths, vulnerabilities and mitigationsPractical use of MITRE ATT&CK; for threat mapping, adversary behaviour analysis, detection development and control validationNetwork and OT securityNetwork security fundamentals: TCP/IP, firewall technologies, network segmentation, intrusion detection and traffic analysisExperience with SCADA environments and supporting technologiesUnderstanding of Industrial Control System (ICS) security principles, threats, vulnerabilities and protective controlsKnowledge of OT monitoring technologies, processes and use cases for detecting malicious or anomalous activity
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📌 Senior Splunk Detection Engineer | 12 Month Contract (Sydney)
🏢 Pathway Search
📍 Sydney