Splunk Engineer

Job Title: Splunk Engineer

Location: Reston, VA OR College Park, MD (Fully Onsite)

Salary: $120,000 to $155,000 **depending on experience**

Clearance: TS/SCI (have to get a CI Poly)

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a highly skilled Splunk Engineer to join a Federal program. This candidate would work fully onsite and one of the two locations listed and requires a TS/SCI and will be required to sit for a CI Poly.

Responsibilities:

• Use Splunk and integrate it with other state-of-the-art tools like HBSS, Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), Network Security Manager (NSM), NetFlow, and/or Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor, detect, and analyze threats.
• You'll perform hands-on evaluation, implementation, and operation of leading security Cyber defense tools and technologies and apply in-depth defense strategies for large and complex networks to rapidly identify vulnerabilities and threats, prioritizing response actions, including developing effective countermeasures.
• You’ll support the risk management and security compliance of specified cyber security tools.
• You'll apply thought leadership to solving complex security challenges in a highly collaborative and innovative work environment.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience utilizing Splunk Enterprise - - deploying, configuring, functional testing; data validation in a Splunk environment
• Experience with Splunk performing systems administration: performing installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting in Windows and Linux Server environments
• Creating custom dashboards, writing queries and generating reports, and setting up alerts and notifications *with SPLUNK
• Familiarity with DoD Risk Management Framework
• TS/SCI

Nice to Have:

• Experience with field abstraction
• data modeling using Splunk
• administering Splunk in distributed deployments
• Splunk Certified Power User or other advanced Splunk Certification

This job opens for applications on 3/28/2025. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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