AbbVie Posted July 31, 2026

Splunk / Cribl Engineer - Cybersecurity Engineering (Hybrid)

North Chicago, IL Full-time
Information Technology

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About this opportunity

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X  and  YouTube.

Job Description

As a member of the Cyber Security Engineering (CSE) team within Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM), the Data Engineer focuses on expanding data capabilities. This role is responsible for delivering high-value data management solutions, including data pipelines, models, and SIEM platform optimization, to empower analysts and protect the business.

Responsibilities:

Data Pipeline Development: Design, implement, and enhance robust streaming and batch data pipelines utilizing message brokers to efficiently feed the SIEM and other downstream analytics engines.

Data Transformation & Normalization: Leverage observability pipelines to aggressively route, filter, and normalize/harmonize data, creating structured datasets from unstructured logs prior to SIEM ingestion.

Data Modeling & Architecture: Build scalable data models and enhance standard schemas within data warehousing solutions to deliver reliable, cost-effective, query-optimized storage.

Data Integrity & Lineage: Verify data integrity and translations across distributed systems and message topics while managing end-to-end data lineage.

Development & Integration: Analyze requirements to determine the necessary coding, API integrations, and programming activities to connect disparate security telemetry sources into the SIEM, data warehouses, or other repositories.

Testing & Quality Assurance: Execute testing plans, debug pipeline routing issues, and thoroughly document data flows, routing configurations, and integration protocols.

Data Management Operations: Perform the compilation, cataloging, caching, and rapid retrieval of telemetry within the SIEM and associated data lakes.

Analytics Toolsets: Create, manage, and support advanced analytics and reporting environments operating outside the primary SIEM for long-term security analytics and hunting.

Requirements & Capacity Planning: Define precise data specifications and proactively plan for capacity changes across streaming, routing, indexing, and storage infrastructure.

Governance & Standards: Assist in developing, documenting, and enforcing comprehensive data ingestion standards, parsing policies, and retention procedures across all supported platforms.

Actionable Insights: Analyze diverse data sources across the data stack to uncover trends, improve data quality, and provide actionable recommendations to the security operations team.

Metrics Automation: Develop standards and implement robust automations for metrics aggregation and dissemination, pulling key telemetry from the SIEM and data warehouses.

Qualifications

Required: 

Bachelor's Degree with 5 years' experience; or Master's Degree with 4 years' experience

Experienced in writing and optimizing Splunk’s Search Processing Language (SPL)

Proven ability to administer Splunk Enterprise and onboard data sources

Skills in developing data models, dictionaries, and reports within a SIEM platform

Experience building and configuring data pipelines

Experience with regular expressions and parsing unstructured data

Deep understanding of data administration and data standardization policies

Knowledge of database management systems, query languages, table relationships, and views

Experience in validating data sets and calculations

Ability to work both independently without direction and within a group for day-to-day activities

Capable of learning new concepts and processes quickly, and adapting to a constantly changing environment

Experience with CI/CD Pipelines and Git

Experience with database & system integration technologies

Preferred:

Splunk Certified Admin, Power User, or Architect certification

Prior experience working in an Agile team

Familiarity with cybersecurity, privacy principles, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities

Prior experience working with ETL in a SIEM environment (ELK, Splunk, Exabeam, etc.)

Experience working with development tools and scripting languages (Python / PowerShell / Go)

Experience analyzing and pivoting on large sets of data, with the ability to identify patterns, anomalies, and outliers

Cribl Certified User, Admin Stream, or Engineer

Demonstrated experience in log analysis and parsing of unstructured data (ETL)

Amazon Solutions Architect / Azure Data Engineer Associate / Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at  the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors  including  geographic location, and we may ultimately  pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be  modified in the future. ​

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

This job is eligible to  participate in our short-term incentive programs.  ​

Note: No amount of pay is  considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned,  vested,  and determinable. The amount and availability of  any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a   particular employee  remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be  modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion,  consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1097 comparable Information Technology roles across 55 biopharma companies.

1097Comparable roles tracked
1035Currently active
55Companies hiring similar roles
29Countries represented

Salary context

142 of 1097 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject $84,500/yr – $162,000/yr
Lowest disclosed · Senior Data Security Engineer (Insider Risk Management – Engineering) · AbbVie $0/hr – $0/hr (≈ $0–$0/yr)
Highest disclosed · Senior Director, Targets and Mechanisms Solutions · Pfizer $230,900/yr – $384,800/yr
Peer group range $0 – $307,850 (median $165,900)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1097 comparable roles

India507
United States240
Spain106
Poland72
Portugal32
China13

+ 23 more countries

Seniority mix

612 of 1097 peers have a known seniority level

Senior290
Manager135
Associate52
Principal50
Associate Director39
Director28
Senior Director13
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc4
Executive/VP1

Therapeutic area mix

1 of 1097 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology1

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