Sr Splunk Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Splunk Engineer owns the data and platform craft of the TESIEMS Splunk environment — getting data in cleanly, managing apps and configuration, keeping the data healthy, and hardening and securing the platform — in support of the TSSSOC’s centralized logging mission and OIA’s classified-intelligence operations. Key responsibilities include:

Data Onboarding & Ingest

• Identify, prioritize, and onboard log sources into Splunk; support system owners and data managers across the Department through successful ingest.

• Engineer inputs, parsing (props/transforms), field extraction, and indexing; integrate diverse feeds (networks, infrastructure, bureau sources) reliably.

• Build and maintain reliable, restartable data flows with monitoring and error handling; drive down the onboarding backlog.

Splunk App & Configuration Management

• Manage Splunk apps, add-ons, and knowledge objects; package and deploy configuration via the deployment server / cluster manager.

• Maintain configuration-management discipline across the distributed environment (indexers, search heads, forwarders).

• Develop dashboards, reports, and searches supporting SOC and intelligence use cases.

Data Hygiene & Performance

• Normalize disparate data sets for analytic utility; monitor and improve data quality and coherence across the environment.

• Manage index/storage strategy and retention; optimize ingestion and search performance.

Hardening & Authentication Security

• Harden the Splunk platform and manage secure authentication and access — role-based access control, SSO / LDAP / SAML integration, and least privilege.

• Keep the environment patched and tuned; support vulnerability management and mitigation of the Splunk environment.

• Maintain configuration and security documentation supporting assessment / authorization of the TESIEMS system.

KNOWLEDGE

• Splunk data onboarding: inputs, props.conf/transforms.conf, field extraction, indexing
• Splunk app / add-on and knowledge-object management; deployment server / cluster manager
• Data normalization and data-quality / hygiene practices
• Splunk performance tuning (ingestion and search) and index / storage strategy
• Splunk platform hardening and secure authentication (RBAC, SSO / LDAP / SAML)
• SIEM / SOC operations at enterprise scale

SKILLS

• Reliable data onboarding and normalization across diverse sources
• App and configuration-management discipline across a distributed Splunk deployment
• Dashboard, report, and SPL development
• Ingestion and search performance optimization
• Platform hardening and authentication / access configuration

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. (Three additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree)
• Certifications: None required. Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect and Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Administrator preferred

CLEARANCE

• Active Top Secret clearance required

Pueo is an equal employment opportunity employer and affirmative action employer. All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or protected veteran status. Pueo takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance diversity and inclusion of individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

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