Splunk Senior Engineer

Are you an accomplished Splunk expert and have experience in IT security and security controls?

Do you desire to be a valued member of a team delivering high-end IT services and consulting for a cabinet-level Federal Government agency?

Hill Associates is searching for a Splunk Senior Engineer to support a fast-paced cabinet-level Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) organization. You will be a Splunk SME to assist the Department to develop, engineer, and implement a new Department-wide Splunk capability to facilitate operational security data ingest and metrics, advanced data analytics, and security reporting to both internal and external government consumers.  

Position Summary:

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) to use Splunk as part of a department-wide effort to achieve efficiencies and orchestration across various Splunk deployments (silos) into a more unified architecture and operational security capability.  
• Quickly learn and assimilate the complicated set of Splunk system owners, capabilities, data types, indexes, data repositories, and consumers across multiple organizational components.  
• Analyze existing ingested data to respond to evolving business, IT, and security functions.
• Serve as a Splunk technical engineer to implement requirements and assist with devising a new, to-be architecture to satisfy Department-level requirements.  
• Use your in-depth knowledge of Splunk on-premises and cloud deployments to assist with identifying the most effective and efficient way to deploy Spunk capabilities (e.g., search heads, forwarders, indexers) to achieve desired outcomes.  
• Inventory and assess data sources and inputs and ensure this data is prioritized and properly formatted for Splunk ingest and report generation.
• Turn data into action with intelligent analytics and clear insights. Define raw input requirements to support data models as well as final outputs required to ensure Department personnel can assess the security status of computing systems and produce readable, understandable summary reporting.
• Utilize Splunk to develop data requirements, data catalog(s), data descriptions, data sources, and data formatting to ensure that security controls can be measured and managed across on-premises and cloud IT services.
• Develop dashboarding or other automated data presentation designs.
• Interact with team members to integrate and migrate customers into a centralized Enterprise Splunk instance.

Requirements:

• Minimum fifteen (15) years of experience with the Splunk environment, including Splunk's unique investigative approach to data analysis.
• Master’s degree -  such as Cybersecurity, IT Systems, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related field of study.
• The candidate must have the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust suitability clearance.
• Splunk Certifications, Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator or Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
• Experience with on-premises and cloud (MSSP) Splunk system deployments and the pros/cons of each approach.  
• Experience in using Splunk for data collection, formatting, presentation, and preservation.
• Strong experience in Splunk for ingest of data across a variety of applications and users.
• Working in large enterprise environments leveraging clustering technologies and multiple Splunk instances.
• Experience in the presentation of data requirements, solutions, and outputs to system owners and executive leadership.
• Ability to capture high-level technical information in a clear, concise manner.
• Strong communication skills to understand and communicate data scope, breadth, and depth.
• Ability to think creatively and adapt creative thinking to what works for the organization.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.
• Experience working with and in Government projects desired.
• Ability to work remotely or onsite as required in the DC Metro area.

• Active US Government Clearance at the Secret level or higher is desirable. 

Hill Associates is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. The salary range for this position is $160,000 – $175,000 per year, based on factors such as job-related skills, experience, education, and location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

Physical Demands: Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Why Work for Hill Associates?

We are a small award winning government contracting firm with demonstrated success delivering and supporting mission critical networking solutions.

Benefits: From the first day of employment, Hill Associates offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), as well as a range of other voluntary benefits. Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time employees.

Hill Associates recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes without regard to race, religion, creed, color, citizenship, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including terminations, layoffs, recalls, transfers, leaves of absence.

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Applications can be submitted electronically or by submitting a paper resume to:

Hill Associates Attention: HR

1 Research Ct Suite 450

Rockville MD 20850

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Salary : $160,000 - $175,000