Splunk Engineer
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Job description
Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT as a Splunk Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you., * Design, implement, and maintain Splunk Enterprise infrastructure, including deployment, configuration, and performance tuning.
- Collect, index, and monitor machine data across a large-scale environment, ensuring high availability and security.
- Develop and configure Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports to support operational, security, and performance monitoring.
- Develop and optimize SPL (Search Processing Language) queries to analyze logs and provide valuable insights.
- Collaborate with security and operations teams to create use cases, improve data ingestion, and enhance event correlation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance, security, and scalability issues within Splunk environments.
- Integrate third-party systems and data sources with Splunk to enhance the visibility of network traffic and security incidents.
- Provide technical support and training to junior administrators and other staff members to optimize the usage of Splunk.
- Monitor and report on the health of Splunk infrastructure, ensuring it is operating within defined SLAs.
- Perform regular updates and maintenance on Splunk instances, including upgrading to the latest releases.
- Provide incident response analysis and participate in the development of security-related queries and monitoring rules.
- Document processes, configurations, and best practices for future reference
Requirements
Bash (Programming Language),Python Software Development,SIEM Tools,Splunk Administration
Certifications:
CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA, Splunk Cloud Certified Admin | Splunk - Splunk, Splunk Core Certified Power User | Splunk - Splunk, ITIL 4 Foundation | PeopleCert - PeopleCert
Experience:
10 + years of related experience, * Certification: DoD 8140 or DoD 8570 Certification
- Experience: 10+ years of related experience
- Required Skills:
- Proven experience in Splunk configuration, administration, and optimization.
- Strong understanding of data ingestion, search queries, indexing, and reporting in Splunk.
- Proficiency in Splunk SPL for querying and analyzing machine data.
- Experience in setting up and managing Splunk enterprise-wide alerts, reports, and dashboards.
- Knowledge of security monitoring, SIEM integration, and log management best practices.
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot Splunk performance issues and security incidents.
- Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating Splunk-related tasks.
- Desired Skills:
- Splunk Certified Power User or Splunk Certified Admin
- ITIL 4 Foundation Certification
- Experience working with large-scale environments (5,000+ users, 1,000+ servers).
- Familiarity with SIEM, PKI, or other security-related technologies.
- Experience with cloud-based Splunk implementations (e.g., Splunk Cloud).
- Prior experience working in cross-functional IT teams and supporting security operations.
- Required Security clearance level: a current/active TS/SCI clearance is required.
- US citizenship required due to the TS/SCI clearance requirement.
Benefits & conditions
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace, The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. 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.
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.
