Sr. Splunk Engineer Job at Leidos, Ashburn, VA

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  • Leidos
  • Ashburn, VA

Job Description

Description

Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations. Leidos currently has a need for a Splunk Engineer for this highly visible cyber security program supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) security operations center (SOC). The Splunk Engineer will support the full system engineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, implementation, integration, test, and documentation.

The Splunk Engineer will follow defined best practices and operational workflows. 

Primary Responsibilities :
The Splunk Engineer will provide overall engineering, and administration in supporting a very large distributed clustered Splunk environment consisting of search heads, indexers, deployers, deployment servers, heavy/universal forwarders and Splunk Enterprise Security premuim app, spanning security, performance, and operational roles. The Engineer should be proficient with recognizing and onboarding new data sources into Splunk, analyzing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data. The Splunk engineer should be proficient within a Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps.

The Splunk Engineer will be a member of the Enterprise Splunk team, Cybersecurity Engineering team members and will be required to interact with end users to gather requirements, perform troubleshooting, and provide assistance with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards. The Splunk Engineer may be required interact with senior management, as necessary. 

Basic Qualifications:
  • A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree coupled with 12 years’ experience in the Information Technology arena

  • Additional Cyber Security Certifications and experience may be considered in lieu of Bachelors degree.

  • 3+ Years experience in Linux and SQL/ODBC interfaces

  • 2+ Years experience in app interface development, using REST API’s 

  • Ability to follow Change & Configuration Management.

  • 4+ years of experience in a senior Splunk role working in a Splunk clustered environment supporting SOC or NOC environments

  • Strong problem solving abilities with an analytic and qualitative eye for reasoning under pressure.

  • Self-starter with the ability to independently prioritize and complete multiple tasks with little to no supervision

  • Knowledge of Cloud Services such as AWS, Azure, Office365

  • Ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or Powershell

Certifications:

Splunk Certified Architect Certification.

 

Clearance:

Must have an active Secret Clearance and in addition, must have a current or be able to favorably pass a 5 year (BI) Background Investigation to join this program.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in SQL.

  • Current or former completed Splunk training.

  • Prior experience a in Splunk professional services role.

  • Experience in automating Splunk Deployments and orchestration with in a Cloud environment.

Original Posting Date:

2024-09-26

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $126,100.00 - $227,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Job Tags

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