What are the responsibilities and job description for the Splunk Cyber Security Engineer position at Apollo ITS?
Title : Splunk Cyber Security Engineer
Location : Fairfax, VA (Hybrid)
Duration : 12 Months
Type : Contract
Job Description :
- Splunk Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for engineering data ingestion into Virginia Department of Transportation Splunk instance is configured and maintained properly.
- This includes but is not limited to onboarding new data ingestion sources, modifying and adjusting current sources and maintaining the backend of Splunk throughout the VDOT Operations Technology Network.
- Splunk Backend Management
- Management of Indexes
- Onboarding new Indexes as needed
- Onboarding Log Sources
- Maintaining Current Log Sources
- Installing / Update Apps and Addons in Splunk
- Researching Splunk Add-ons
- Splunk Change Management and Maintenance
- Network Knowledge (Understanding of how data flows throughout the network)
- Linux Syslog Maintenance
- Log Rotation
- Maintenance of Syslog Services
- Red Hat Linux Administration
- Linux Updates
- Security Patching
- Splunk Deployments
- On Call for Splunk related outages
Required Skills
