Splunk Engineer

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CACI's BAMBOOTIGER program is seeking a Splunk Engineer to support its Maryland customer!  You will manage a Splunk Platform, create Splunk applications, and use IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).  You will also build applications to manage, search, analyze, and visualize data. The role includes installing, troubleshooting, and performing Splunk application development. The role also includes integrating Splunk with other applications using web services and other system APIs.

We provide the environment, support, and responsive, available management to nurture and stretch your abilities. We also offer a career mobility program to make it easy to build a dynamic career at CACI and offer flexible work schedule arrangements to support work/life balance.  

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and extend a current Splunk 8.5 implementation on MASH resources consisting of 3 search heads, 4 indexes, 1 master loader, 1 load balancer, and 2 forwarders.

• Perform Splunk version upgrades and migrate the solution to RHEL8 OS and eventually onto an AWS platform.

• Use Splunk software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated data.  

• Coordinate with the customer on reporting vision, create Splunk reports, and deploy/manage them on dashboards

• Display metrics, diagnose problems, and pull data from repositories on servers from tools such as CASPORT, LATTEART, Jira, and Confluence

• Create knowledge articles, documentation, and work instructions used by the Splunk, server, desktop and Information System Security teams, and Tier 2/3 Help Desk technicians

• Establish a process to control and manage requirements changes, consider impacts before committing changes, gain stakeholder buy-in, eliminate ambiguity, ensure requirements traceability, and track and settle open actions formally and proactively

• Contribute to development and ongoing improvement of industry best practices and standards for maintaining data analytics enterprise technologies

• Manage and ensure the technical integrity of the system baseline over time, continually updating it as various changes are imposed on the system during the lifecycle from development through deployment and operations & maintenance

• Ensure the Splunk infrastructure functions properly with PKI-based authentication, corporate authorization services, firewalls, and SSL/TLS communications.

• Install, test, and deploy hotfixes/patches for Splunk app/product releases to manage enterprise vulnerabilities. 

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph

• 6 years of experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required with a Bachelor of Science degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.  Note: Four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

• 2 years of experience managing a Splunk Platform

• Experience with:

  • Administering Splunk clusters

  • Upgrading Splunk to new versions

  • Writing Python scripts to pull data from tools using API data calls

  • Performing IAVA support

  • Upgrading platform from CentOS7 to RHEL8 and moving to AWS

  • Pulling logs for servers

  • Creating dashboards and briefing material using Splunk data for COR-T

Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here.

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CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.

Salary : $85,800 - $180,200