Splunk Engineer

Reston, Virginia

Piper Companies
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Job Title: Splunk Engineer

Location: Reston, VA OR College Park, MD (Fully Onsite)

Salary: $120,000 to $155,000 depending on experience

Clearance: TS/SCI (have to get a CI Poly)

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a highly skilled Splunk Engineer to join a Federal program. This candidate would work fully onsite and one of the two locations listed and requires a TS/SCI and will be required to sit for a CI Poly.

Responsibilities:
  • Use Splunk and integrate it with other state-of-the-art tools like HBSS, Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), Network Security Manager (NSM), NetFlow, and/or Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor, detect, and analyze threats.
  • You'll perform hands-on evaluation, implementation, and operation of leading security Cyber defense tools and technologies and apply in-depth defense strategies for large and complex networks to rapidly identify vulnerabilities and threats, prioritizing response actions, including developing effective countermeasures.
  • You'll support the risk management and security compliance of specified cyber security tools.
  • You'll apply thought leadership to solving complex security challenges in a highly collaborative and innovative work environment.
Requirements:
  • 3+ years of experience utilizing Splunk Enterprise deploying, configuring, functional testing; data validation in a Splunk environment
  • Experience with Splunk performing systems administration: performing installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting in Windows and Linux Server environments
  • Creating custom dashboards, writing queries and generating reports, and setting up alerts and notifications with SPLUNK
  • Familiarity with DoD Risk Management Framework
  • TS/SCI
Nice to Have:
  • Experience with field abstraction
  • data modeling using Splunk
  • administering Splunk in distributed deployments
  • Splunk Certified Power User or other advanced Splunk Certification

This job opens for applications on 3/28/2025. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.
Date Posted: 02 April 2025
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