Data Scientist - SME

Job Description

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Skill Level(s): Subject Matter Expert

• maintain clustered Splunk infrastructure, including search head and index cluster, deployment server, deployer, license manager, heavy and universal forwarders, Distributed Management Console (DMC)
• onboard new data sources, monitor the health of existing data feeds.
• deploy and manage Splunk apps, including writing custom apps where needed.
• design and implement data flow and accesses across different networks and system interfaces, for example between Splunk and AWS, or between Splunk and network devices.
• perform routine maintenance tasks such as adding or deleting indexes, sizing volumes, adding data inputs, patching the OS and upgrading Spunk, automation of routine tasks.
• troubleshoot data flow interruptions, data quality issues, performance issues.
• collaborate with other functional teams such as network, storage, security to provide Splunk service where needed across entire customer network
• document architecture, how-to guides, troubleshooting documents.
• create dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications.
• collect information for reporting on hosted systems.
  
  

Required Skills

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

Skill Level(s): Subject Matter Expert

The Candidate shall have the following required skills, certifications and demonstrated experience:

• working with Splunk and Linux.
• understanding Splunk distributed architecture and data pipelines, with hands-on implementation.
• Splunk client management and apps management.
• integrating Splunk with various data sources such as syslog, flat files, databases, APIs, cloud platform logs, HEC endpoints.
• Splunk SPL to create searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards.
• Splunk conf files to manage inputs, props, transforms, and similar.
• fluency with Linux OS (RHEL or Rocky 8) and Command Line Interface (CLI)
• scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• powershell for task automation.
• custom apps development.
• Regular Expression.
• AWS SDK and CLI to programmatically interface with AWS.
  
  

Employment Type: Full Time

Workplace Type: On-Site

WHY PENDULUM

At Pendulum, We Set An Industry Standard Of Doing Right By Our People So We Can Do Right By Our Clients. We Generously Offer

• 11% 401(k) Matching Contribution
• 5 weeks of Paid Leave
• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, & Vision
• Generous Training Budget
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Business Development / Growth Incentives
• Opportunities for Paid Training/Certifications and Education
  
  

Ref#: 2341-01

Please be aware that all of our current positions require an Active U.S Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance with an Active Full Scope Polygraph which requires U.S citizenship.

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