Splunk Engineer (SECRET) Washington, DC

Candidates MUST have an active Secret clearance for consideration. This position is hybrid with a work location of Washington DC.

Splunk Security Engineers fuel solutions to ensure enterprise security deployments make the deepest impact possible across an organization. They solve organizations' most challenging problems, including the ones they didn't know existed. They are self-motivated, have an insatiable thirst to learn new technologies and thrive in a fast paced environment. Lastly, they feel comfortable mastering new technologies and come from a variety of business, analytic and technology backgrounds.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Drive complex security focused deployments of Splunk or ArcSight while working side by side with the customers to solve their unique problems across a variety of use cases
• Work with our customers to understand their security posture and requirements
• Support our security deployments by unlocking the potential of Splunk to assist our customers in achieving their Cyber Security strategy
• Collaborate across the entire organization to bring access to product and technical teams to get the right solution delivered and drive innovation gathered from customer input
• Leverage previous experiences, share best practices and create innovative solutions to push user adoption and maximize the value of their SIEM tools
• Enable customers to solve the next wave of questions on their own

Position Requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher
• Must have an understanding of cyber-based threat techniques and procedures to compare industry related events, exposures, and incidents with open source and gathered intelligence research to determine threat capability and intent, and the potential impact of the threat on customer network architecture and operations
• 3+ years of Splunk architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting experience
• Proficiency developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies
• Expertise developing security-focused content for Splunk, including creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards
• Familiarity with key security events on common IT platforms
• Deep proficiency in client and server operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux
• General networking and security troubleshooting (firewalls, routing, NAT, etc.)
• Scripting and development skills (BASH, Perl, Python or Java) with strong knowledge of regular expressions
• Ability to autonomously prioritize and successfullydeliver across a portfolio of projects
• Must possess an active DoD 8570-compliant cyber certification at IAT Level II or better

Preferred Requirements:

• Familiar with Configuration and Administration with Enterprise SIEM and experience in the Integration of multiple SIEM tools into a Single Architecture
• Working Knowledge of Operating System Auditing (both Syslog and Window Event Log) preferred
• Splunk Enterprise Security experience
• Splunk Certifications such as Splunk Certified Consultant, Splunk Enterprise Security Implementation, and Splunk Certified Architect
• Experience authoring security runbooks, policies