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Peraton · 2 days ago

Splunk Software Engineer

Linthicum, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$146K/yr - $234K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Act as the Splunk SME providing input into strategies, capabilities, and integrations to improve the availability and performance of applications.

Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc.

Design Splunk systems to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, and agility.

Design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.

Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products.

Design and size Splunk architectures.

Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Oversee one or more software development teams and ensure the work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process being used on any particular project.

Confer with system engineers and hardware engineers to derive software requirements and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

Coordinate software system installation and monitor equipment functioning to ensure operational specifications are met.

Analyze and resolve system performance issues.

Build custom dashboards.

This role requires 100% on-site support M-F.

Qualification

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TS/SCI Security ClearanceSplunk CertificationsSoftware DevelopmentSystem InstallationPerformance AnalysisSystem ModernizationSecurity CertificationsApp ManagementSplunk ProficiencyProgramming LanguagesArchitecture Design

Required

Active/current TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline with eight (8) years of software engineering (SWE) experience; master's degree with six (6) years of experience; PhD with three (3) years of experience. 14 years of SWE experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

Must have one of the following Splunk certifications: Splunk Certified User, Splunk Certified Power User, Splunk Certified Admin, Splunk Accredited Core Implementation, Splunk Accredited Consultant

Ability to design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.

Demonstrated experience developing software system installation, build procedures, and scripts.

Ability to analyze and resolve system performance issues (e.g. response time or timing problems, interface/integration problems, system bottlenecks, data flow issues).

Ability to build a new Splunk instance to replace an existing system's capabilities and modernize/improve.

Preferred

Security certifications: SANS, CISSP, etc.

Background of creating and managing app and its components.

Proficiency with Splunk component utilization (e.g. Indexer loads and requirements, search head peering, etc), component resourcing (e.g. underlying server specs), inter-component communications and tradeoffs (e.g. DNS vs IP tables, usage of SSL, etc) and underlying platform requirements.

Knowledge of two of the following programming languages: Perl, Python, SQL, Shell.

Experience providing architecture-level design to support and operate Splunk using security information and event management (SIEM) or security event management (SEM) best practices and Splunk enterprise security.