Position:Splunk Engineer SME

Location:Washington DC

Duration:Long Term Contract

Seekinga talented Systems Engineer SME to join our team to support a federal customerwithin the Client Enterprise Security Operations Center (ESOC). The SplunkSystems Engineer role provides support across a progressing agile teamenvironment focused on supporting the ESOC Operations mission. The Splunkengineer will support the full system engineering life-cycle, includingrequirements analysis, design, development, integration, test, documentation,and implementation following defined best practices and operational workflows.This role will engage in infrastructure solution design and architecture,information assurance, advisory, compliance, and risk management support. Theskills outlined below will be used across the enterprise in supporting alldivisions and missions and not necessarily specific to the Splunk platform butwill sometimes be general infrastructure engineering or support tasks withinthe same mission space.

• Build, implement and administer Splunk in Windows and Linux environments.
• Assist in the technical design process, and provide guidance/direction to the customer on how to best get value from Splunk products.
• Establish and maintain configuration control and provide technical support.
• Perform data ingestion and visualization for Splunk.
• On-board new data sources into Splunk, analyze the data for anomalies and trends, and build dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data.
• Design, develop, recommend and implement Splunk dashboards and alerts to support the ESOC Operations team.
• Perform integration activities to connect with 3rd party software APIs.
• Work with stakeholders to develop requirements and deliverables.
• Manage automating Splunk deployments and orchestration within a Cloud environment.

BasicQualifications

• Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
• Extensive experience implementing, architecting and administering Splunk and Splunk Enterprise Security Suite
• Experience writing Splunk queries in Splunk Programming Language (SPL)
• Experience developing in XML, Bash, JavaScript and Python, Perl, PowerShell scripts
• Extensive experience with two of SQL, MySQL, or Oracle
• Experience administering Linux OS, particularly RedHat Enterprise
• Department of Homeland Security ESOC employees are required to obtain an Entry on Duty (EOD) clearance to support this program.