Splunk Engineer - Active Secret Clearance

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Cyber Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cybersecurity, Splunk (Inactive), Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Own your career as a Splunk Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build strong lines of cyber defense using cutting-edge technologies. Your work in cyber security at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Splunk Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Splunk Engineer joining our team to provide critical support to the architecture, deployment, and maintenance of Splunk environments that support essential federal clients. The Splunk Engineer will work as part of a diverse, high-octane security team to deploy, test, manage, and maintain Splunk solutions while providing data analytics and analysis on operations to internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

If you are interested in a challenging, rewarding opportunity to safeguard vital infrastructure and grow your career with a company that values its people as our greatest asset, then this is the role for you!  

HOW A SPLUNK ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Supports systems integration efforts involving hardware, software, operating system and communications interoperability, and maintenance of the Splunk Environment.
• Manages distributed deployment architecture, index clusters, and search head clusters.
• Provides design, development, and implementation support.
• Develops dashboards, reports, and complex custom queries.
• Creates and manages Splunk knowledge objects.
• Provides technical design, programming, testing, and implementation support for operating, communications, and hardware systems integration of Splunk data.
• Normalizes disparate data sets, integrating multiple data streams and feeds from networks and infrastructure services, into near real-time dashboards for use in analysis.
• Prepares specifications, code, system tests, indexers, forwarders, and documentation in accordance with standards and requirements specifications.
• Maintains a current understanding of the best practices and strategies used in cyber security.
• Motivates self and co-workers to expand knowledge base and capabilities.
• May support installation of physical and software components.

 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
 

Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field. Degree may be substituted for by 4 years of additional experience in related field.
 

Required Experience:

• With Degree: 5+ years of experience in cyber security or related field required
• Without Degree: 9+ years of experience in cyber security or related field required:
   

Required Technical Skills:

• Splunk Enterprise, Security, SOAR, UBA, AA, ARI, SOC, ITSI, and/or AD
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of Splunk infrastructure.
• Interoperability and maintenance of Splunk environments.
• Distributed deployment of Splunk architecture, index clusters, and search head clusters.
• Creation and maintenance of Splunk dashboards.
• Creation and management of Splunk knowledge objects.
• Installation and support of hardware and software components.
• Preparation, support, and improvement of technical documentation and design.

Security Clearance Level: Must possess active Secret or higher clearance.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

 

Location: On customer site in Washington, D.C.
 

US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $119,862 - $162,166. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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