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Bank of America · 1 day ago

Senior Splunk Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

6+ years exp

Bank of America is committed to helping make financial lives better through the power of every connection. The Senior Splunk Engineer will work with the Splunk team to enhance the security data environment, providing optimal uptime and developing detection strategies to identify malicious behavior accurately.

Asset ManagementBankingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Analyze, triage, and support data transformation initiatives

Enhance the security data environment to provide optimal uptime of the platform

Provide both tactical and strategic enhancements to the platform on behalf of cyber security technology and operations teams

Actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the Security Operations and Threat Response team

Work with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to gain insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics to develop valuable detection strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately

Advise on product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global enterprise

Design cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls

Write efficient SPL within short timelines to support detection needs of the firm

Design and implement data ingestion strategies for various log sources into Splunk

Develop and maintain parsing configurations to normalize and enrich incoming data for effective analysis

Collaborate with application owners and IT teams to onboard new data sources into Splunk

Create and optimize search queries and reports to extract valuable insights from the indexed data

Customize and implement Splunk dashboards for different stakeholders to visualize key performance indicators and security metrics

Implement security best practices within Splunk to safeguard sensitive data

Collaborate with the security team to configure and monitor alerts for suspicious activities or security incidents

Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal policies related to log management and data retention

Develop automation scripts using SPL (Search Processing Language) and other scripting languages to streamline administrative tasks

Continuously seek opportunities to improve efficiency through automation in Splunk processes

Maintain thorough documentation of Splunk configurations, processes, and troubleshooting procedures

Provide training and support to other IT team members on Splunk best practices and usage

Experience consuming, analyzing, and reporting Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways

Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals

Qualification

SplunkSPLThreat HuntingData AnalysisSecurity OperationsIncident ResponsePythonSQLSolution DesignStakeholder ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentCollaborationCritical Thinking

Required

Minimum of 6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Incident Response, Content Development or Equivalent Experience in a large Enterprise Splunk Environment performing triage and administrative duties

Direct experience performing content detection engineering and threat hunting in an active corporate environment

Significant experience working with Splunk Procedure Language to create and tune detections

Experience mapping data fields to a common data model such as CEF, OCSF

Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue

Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results

Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization

Experience with enterprise scale EDR, SIEM, and SOAR tools

Experience in requirements gathering around the Splunk tool, documenting requirements, requirement analysis, product testing, etc

Splunk Infrastructure Management Experience/Knowledge

Collaborate with teams to Monitor and optimize the performance of the Splunk environment, to ensure efficient data processing and search capabilities on our search heads

Ability to troubleshoot, triage and resolve issues related to Splunk Infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability

Experience in Splunk enterprise and Splunk Cloud