Splunk Engineer

Gridiron IT is seeking a Splunk Engineer to support a federal program in Huntsville, AL.

Top Secret Clearance Required

Role and Responsibilities:

• Drive complex security focused deployments of Splunk 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 Cybersecurity 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 Splunk
• Perform data aggregation
• Updating logs to mee the new OMB mandates

• 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 development, implementation, and troubleshooting experience
• Splunk Core certified is required. ES experience is nice to have.
• 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 especially Linux but also Windows
• 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 successfully deliver across a portfolio of projects