Position: Splunk Engineer SME

Location: Washington DC

Duration: Long Term Contract

Seeking a talented Systems Engineer SME to join ourteam to support a federal customer within the Client Enterprise SecurityOperations Center (ESOC). The Splunk Systems Engineer role provides supportacross a progressing agile team environment focused on supporting the ESOCOperations mission. The Splunk engineer will support the full systemengineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development,integration, test, documentation, and implementation following defined bestpractices and operational workflows. This role will engage in infrastructuresolution design and architecture, information assurance, advisory, compliance,and risk management support. The skills outlined below will be used across theenterprise in supporting all divisions and missions and not necessarily specificto the Splunk platform but will sometimes be general infrastructure engineeringor support tasks within the 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.