Splunk Cyber Security Engineer

  • Location: Fairfax, VA
  • Type: Contract
  • Job #33386

Splunk Cyber Security Engineer
*This is a hybrid position

Description:

  • Splunk Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for engineering data ingestion into the clients’ Splunk instance is configured and maintained properly.
  • This includes but is not limited to onboarding new data ingestion sources modifying and adjusting current sources and maintaining the backend of Splunk throughout the clients’ Operations Technology Network.

Responsibilities:

  • Splunk Backend Management
  • Management of Indexes
  • Onboarding new Indexes as needed
  • Onboarding Log Sources
  • Maintaining Current Log Sources
  • Installing/Update Apps and Addons in Splunk
  • Researching Splunk Add-ons
  • Splunk Change Management and Maintenance
  • Network Knowledge Understanding of how data flows throughout the network
  • Linux Syslog Maintenance
  • Log Rotation
  • Maintenance of Syslog Services
  • Red Hat Linux Administration
  • Linux Updates
  • Security Patching
  • Splunk Deployments
  • On Call for Splunk related outages

Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

  • Splunk Core, Required 3 Years
  • Splunk ES, Required 3 Years
  • Networking Knowledge, Required 2 Years
  • Splunk Management of Indexes, Required 3 Years
  • Splunk Apps and Addon’s Configuration Knowledge, Required 3 Years
  • Red Hat Linux Administration, Required 3 Years
  • Change Management Experience, Highly desired 3 Years
  • Linux Syslog Administration, Required 2 Years
  • Splunk Log Source Onboading, Required 3 Years
  • Splunk Maintenance, Required 3 Years
  • Splunk Gov Cloud, Highly desired 2 Years

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