Sr. Splunk Engineer

Leidos Corporate Group has an immediate opening for Sr. Splunk Engineer to join our CIO Services team. In this role, you will provide overall engineering and design support for a very large clustered distributed Splunk Enterprise and Cribl Stream environment, spanning security, performance, and operational roles. In addition, you will support the full system engineering life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, integration, test, documentation, and implementation following defined best practices and operational workflows. The ideal candidate will have the skillset to maintain complex monitoring solutions from the ground up and be able to lead the analysis of complex operational issues in real-time. In addition, to supporting continuous process improvement through implementation of modern automation tools and methodologies. Exhibit a continuous learning mindset and ability to adapt new technologies to improve Splunk and Cribl operations.

Ability to work well with all levels of management is important in this role as you will collaborate with other engineering team members and end users to gather requirements and perform troubleshooting. You should also be able to handle seldom, barely defined, and unusual job events.

This position offers a 100% remote working opportunity.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and minimum 8 years of experience in Information Technology field. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree.
• Prior experience should include 4+ years in a Splunk Engineering role
• Experience working in a Splunk environment with 100+ users and multiple terabytes of daily ingest
• 3+ years’ experience in Linux
• Ability to create custom Splunk Apps and Add-ons
• In depth knowledge of props and transforms
• Deep knowledge of the Splunk Common Information Model
• Practical experience in Splunk Add-on development, using REST API’s
• Experience in creating, testing and deploying highly optimized regular expressions
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language, preferably Python and JavaScript
• Understanding of source control tools like git and bitbucket
• Intermediate understanding and ability to use AWS/Azure technology
• Understanding of iterative development Agile methodology
• Working knowledge of ITIL Change & Configuration Management
• US Citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Understanding of data collection/reduction/shaping tools such as Cribl Stream
• Understanding the importance of data and how to apply data in decision making.
• Expertise in service decomposition with Splunk ITSI
• Practical applications of automation to workflows and processes - scripting, low-code / no code
• Familiarity with SQL/ODBC interfaces
• Experience in other systems and network management/monitoring products
• Complete or partial Splunk Admin/Architect and Cribl training

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.