Cyber Splunk Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cybersecurity, Linux, Linux Shell Scripting, Splunk Enterprise Security

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

We are GDIT. We support and secure some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We are looking to hire a Cyber Splunk Engineer that can enhance our security team.

Provide expertise in scripting/programming to maintain our Cyber operation systems. This is primarily a Linux environment that the systems run on top of.  We need to support the various Cyber Security tools, applications and network and endpoint hardware we support. Builds, designs, tests, and deploys perimeter, cloud security systems to support firewalls, proxy devices and other security systems.

Will administer the core Cyber Security applications that we support such as Syslog and log systems, Splunk, Radius and various other security and system tools. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security being our major tool and focus of this position. Using Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security. Will interface with fellow Cyber and Firewall engineers to gather additional requirements and details to help support the mission of protecting our federal customers environment. Manage vendor ticket, information gathering, and troubleshooting in the event of a platform issue.  This would cover network application issues, providing root cause determination and recommend resolution options.

Supports the planning, documents, and implements hardware and software refresh and upgrade of Cyber Security Systems. Supports periodic firewall rule set review and auditing for standards and use software.  Attends weekly teleconferences, onsite meetings, and participates in working groups, as related to constant changing security environment.

Attends weekly teleconferences, onsite meetings, and participates in working groups, as related to constant changing security environment.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor degree in a computer science/computer engineering related discipline or 10 years of work experience.
• 5 of these years is maintaining linux systems with use of programming and scripting using Perl, Bash, and Python and other advanced languages
• 3 of these years in a Cyber Security environment in support of SIEM and or NOC
• 2 of these supporting IT systems at the enterprise level crossing between Cloud and On Premise environments
• Excellent Linux user and admin skills demonstrating competency to maintain our Cyber Security systems.
• Expert in scripting/programming in a Linux environment to support the various Cyber Security tools and applications required. This would include use of Shell scripting, Perl, Python 3 or above,  Ruby that demonstrates the writing of your own projects and modules.
• Good knowledge of Javascript, Powershell, and/or Visual Basic
• Demonstrate the use of regular expressions
• Knowledge of HTML and web scripting.
• Experience with Syslog-NG and Squid proxy.
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation.
• Good troubleshooting skills.
• Strong Linux foundation with perl, python and bash programming experience.
• Great organizational skills
• Good to excellent technical writing ability
• Knowledge, understanding, and ideally experience with certificate generation and ideally operation of a Certificate Authority.
• Excellent Excel skills. This is to help with reporting and to perform log analysis.
• Good to excellent technical writing ability (use of language, use of Microsoft Word.).
• Use of collaboration tools (Teams, Confluence, JIRA)

Citizenship: U.S.

Clearance: TS and or DOE Q

Certifications:

One of the following required - Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, or Cribl Certified

Desired Experience/Skills/Attributes:

• TCP/IP networking and advanced network concepts
• Proficiency with TCP-IP and IPv4; IPv6 desired
• Load Balancers
• Firewall Experience/Knowledge supporting the configuration and maintenance of Firewall/DMZ infrastructure including Network and Application Firewall Packet Filtering technologies.
• Packet Capture and log analysis experience
• Core IT technologies
• Cloud Environment Knowledge and Admin Experience
• Knowledgeable of RFCs (Requests For Comment). 
• Experienced with network monitoring devices such as HP Openview, Nagios, Zenoss, NeuralStar or other similar monitoring tools.
• Azure, AWS experience is helpful.  
• Experience with SSL and SAML certificates.  
• CISSP, CCNP Security, PCNSE, Network+, Security+, CEH, ITIL (r) Foundation certification, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking, Linux scripting and programming in Python and or Pearl greatly desired. 

The likely salary range for this position is $119,000 - $161,000. 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:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

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. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. 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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