SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) Engineer / Splunk Certified Admin

Job Description
The selected candidate will join a high performing agile team that uses the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program. Program execution follows DEVOPS best practices and employs robust development, test and production environments. Test Driven Development (TDD) and test automation tools are utilized alongside a full suite of team collaboration tools. The program is focused on injecting new technology and adding advanced capabilities in support of an on-going operational system.

Job Summary
The selected candidate will be responsible for configuring the collection, parsing, correlation, and visualization of events for a critical operational system. She/he will demonstrate strong skills in system administration, log management, event correlation, and threat detection and will support building and maintaining a system that analyzes collected data and derives facts, inferences, and projections to determine if the systems being monitored are operating normally. The individual will work on a team responsible for configuring the systems which support analysts and end-users. The successful candidate will support the collection and extraction of data used to refine existing and new reports, analytics, and dashboards, and will be involved with the drafting and creation of reports and dashboards based on end-user requirements. She/he will also support the integration of resources across teams to better define the audit data being collected to eliminate false positives and false negatives from the data.

• At least 8 years of related experience.
• At least 2 years of experience with one or more of the following: StealthWatch, TripWire, Zenoss, ArcSight, Splunk.
• Experience in design, implementation, and support of Splunk core components, including: indexers, forwarders, search heads, and cluster managers.
• Experience with configuration and administration of Splunk ingestion and forwarding for new and existing applications and data.
• Experience with troubleshooting Splunk dataflow issues between the various Splunk core components.
• Experience configuring and deploying data collection for a variety of operating systems and networking platforms.
• Experience creating Dashboards and Analytics within SIEM tools.
• Experience working with monitoring systems supporting auditing, incident response, and system health.
• Understanding of networking components and devices, ports, protocols, and basic networking troubleshooting steps.
• The ability to troubleshoot issues with log feeds, search time, and field extractions.
• The ability to troubleshoot problems related to data solutions.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Assurance, or a related discipline.Network Security Operations Center (SOC) experience.
• Experience and talent in data visualization.
• Experience creating workflows for Incident Response within a SIEM Tool.
• Security+ Certification.
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification.
• GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification.
• Cybersecurity certifications.
• Formal SIEM training.
• Experience working on an Agile team/program.