Help Defend Your Country from Cyber Threats!

We seek to hire a Senior Splunk Engineer who will be responsible for supporting computer network defense for a large Government customer!

Clearance -

Application MUST have a US Government Secret Clearance and MUST be a U.S. Citizen.

U.S. Military Personnel Strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Splunk enterprise Subject Matter Expert
• Architect, design, support, and maintain high availability, distributed, multi-clustered and multi-tenant Splunk deployment
• Maintain strategic Splunk architectural development roadmap
• Responsible for Splunk deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization and capacity planning
• Responsible for onboarding and maintaining a wide variety of data sources to include various OS, appliances, and application logs
• Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms
• Perform data mining and analysis, using various query and reporting methods
• Solve/troubleshoot complex integration challenges and configuration issues
• Create advanced searches, dashboards, visualizations
• Manage Splunk knowledge objects
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned

Qualifications

• Splunk Administrator Certified is a plus
• Experience with Cribl logstream for log parsing is a plus
• Writing Ansible playbooks for automation
• Strong understanding of all Splunk architecture components to include search head clustering, indexer clustering, deployment server and monitoring console.
• Knowledge of advanced search and reporting commands
• Strong understanding of SPL as well as the ability to develop automated search and apps using Python or bash/shell scripting
• Demonstrated ability to create complex dashboards, forms, and visualizations
• Understanding of System Log Files and other structured and non-structured data
• Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms

Physical Activities/Requirements

• Position is Remote 4 days, with 1 day on-site per week

Certifications

Any security equivalent certifications desired!

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $180,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Cribl: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Splunk Core Certified Power User (Preferred)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Herndon, VA 20171