Splunk Engineer

Leidos is hiring an energetic, motivated, innovative individual to be a part of our team supporting Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, MD. The Cloud SRE works closely with the Program team to manage, maintain, and optimize application’s data and infrastructure that support CMS and the public. You will deliver solutions that ultimately ensure that the functions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace are carried out for the US citizen and contribute to efforts to reduce healthcare costs.

With a “no downtime, zero outages” vision and mantra, we support a range of data center and cloud based application needs ranging from self-service to white-glove services, all of which are based on our customer’s required level of support. 

The role of a Site Reliability Engineer will require you to develop solutions that are highly innovative and achieved through research and integration of best practices. Influence development of solutions that impact strategic project/program goals and business results while also leading work of other technical staff. You will resolve highly complex problems using significant application of technical knowledge, conceptualizing, reasoning, and interpretation. You will interact daily with various technical resources across different vendors which are fulfilling technical requirements for the customer.

Your goal will be to work with all stakeholders to help Leidos ensure delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions with minimal business impact. Lastly and most importantly, you will represent our program when meeting with the Application Development Organizations (ADO) and identify opportunities to provide support as well as modernization and innovation opportunities for their application.

The current work environment is remote leveraging various tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

Primary Responsibilities

• Successful candidate will be a member of a cross functional team comprised of well-rounded engineers who can learn new skills rapidly and work across multiple functional domains to carry out end-to-end delivery of infrastructure services. 
• Support the full system life-cycle of Splunk across geographically dispersed enterprise datacenters.
• Customize queries, reports and dashboards.
• Participate in architecture and on-going design meetings to ensure adequate logging while enabling business value and outcomes.
• Monitor system stability and performance and ensure system availability, reliability, and usability.
• Troubleshoot complex problems, resolving operational issues, software fault diagnosis, & interacting with vendors, etc.
• Work closely with Leidos Engineering, Operations staff as well as the customer’s application owners to solve technical problems at the network, system, and application levels.
• Lead the team in all …