Splunk Engineer - Washington, United States - Nyla Technology Solutions

Description

We are seeking a Security Splunk Architect/Engineer to support a Navy enterprise network within the Engineering and Cyber Divisions. The candidate's primary responsibility is to maintain and enhance the existing Splunk infrastructure in the enterprise. Further projects will involve the implementation of Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) and other vendor solutions.

• Implements, tests, and operates advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture.
• Performs on-going security testing and code review to improve software security.
• Troubleshoots and debugs issues that arise.
• Provides engineering designs for new software solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Contributes to all levels of the architecture and maintains technical documentation.
• Consults team members on secure coding practices. Develops a familiarity with new tools and best practices.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining SIEM and SOAR solutions.
• Design and implement threat detection, automate incident response processes, integration of various security tools with SIEM and SOAR platforms via APIs
• Maintain SIEM applications to collect and aggregate IDS and IPS data from network sensors, raw data from collection agents, firewalls, proxy servers, DLP, antivirus, vulnerability scanner elements, and other security-relevant devices.
• Utilize expertise in Splunk "Search" language, Splunk Dashboards, Reports, Lookup Tables, and Summary Indexes. Build Splunk dashboards that take inputs from various data sources such as application logs / operating system logs / middleware logs / network feeds etc. and identify / highlight anomalous activities on the dashboards by their severity levels.
• Perform troubleshooting and provide assistance with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards.

Qualifications:

• Requires a BA or BS (Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field); relevant experience may be a substitute for education.
• Requires at least five (5) years of professional experience
• Requires an active TS/SCI
• Requires experience with importing data in Splunk from various sources: endpoint security, network security (Firewalls, IPS/IDS, DNS, Proxy, etc.), data and application security, cloud security and technologies
• Requires experience with performing systems administration, including performing installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting of Splunk
• Requires experience with designing, implementing, configuring, operating, or testing IT systems or security infrastructure
• Requires experience building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data
• Requires proficiency within a Windows and Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps
• Experience in working in a Splunk clustered environment supporting SOC or NOC environment required
• Experience with virtualization technologies required

Preferred Certifications:

· Splunk Architect, Splunk Admin

· DoD 8570 Level 3 Certification