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Splunk Engineer
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
The System Integration Team integrating Increment II of the US Army's Integrated Personnel and Pay System (IPPS-A) is looking for an experienced Splunk Engineer. CACI is making a significant impact to the Army by developing and integrating the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A), the Army's future Web-based Human Resources (HR) solution across all Army Components. Designed to alleviate the Army's current reliance on over 70 stove-piped systems, IPPS-A will provide a centralized resource for Soldiers, Leaders, and HR Professionals to better manage personnel and pay information.
What you'll get to do:
CACI is seeking a Splunk Engineer who will be responsible for the architecture, installation, administration, and development of Splunk log parsing and alert monitoring, with a goal toward enhancing infrastructure as it relates to application and server data, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration. In addition to log analytics, you will help administer a variety of other platforms within the Enterprise Management suite.
More About the Role:
- Architect, design, support, and maintain Splunk infrastructure for a highly available and disaster recovery configuration
- Administer Splunk and Splunk Application for Enterprise Security (ES) log management
- Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
- Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues
- Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards
- Mentor users and other groups on their use of Splunk
- Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
- Design core systems performance and troubleshooting logs
- Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms
- Perform data mining and analysis, utilizing various queries and reporting methods
- Solve complex Integration challenges and debug complex configuration issues
- Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as architecture diagrams, technical designs, and SOPs
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related technical field
- 7 or more years of relevant work experience
- Splunk experience - minimum 2 to 5 years' experience architecting, configuring, deploying, and customizing the tool
- Strong understanding of Splunk configuration files and architecture
- Knowledge of advanced search and reporting commands
- Demonstrated ability to create complex dashboards, forms, and visualizations
- Understanding of System Log Files and other structured and non-structured data
- Intermediate level understanding of Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems
- Current and active Secret Clearance required; SSBI preferred
- Security certification
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Splunk Architect or Splunk Administrator certification preferred
- Knowledge of a scripting language and UNIX command line
- Experience working in DISA and working with the DISA DECC environment
- Strong knowledge of application monitoring and event management
- Knowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM), Understand the relationship between the CIM and knowledge objects, ability to create a lookup file and create a lookup definition& field aliases and calculated fields
- In depth understanding of Splunk license management preferred
- Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms
What We Can Offer You:
- We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
- For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
The System Integration Team integrating Increment II of the US Army's Integrated Personnel and Pay System (IPPS-A) is looking for an experienced Splunk Engineer. CACI is making a significant impact to the Army by developing and integrating the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A), the Army's future Web-based Human Resources (HR) solution across all Army Components. Designed to alleviate the Army's current reliance on over 70 stove-piped systems, IPPS-A will provide a centralized resource for Soldiers, Leaders, and HR Professionals to better manage personnel and pay information.
What you'll get to do:
CACI is seeking a Splunk Engineer who will be responsible for the architecture, installation, administration, and development of Splunk log parsing and alert monitoring, with a goal toward enhancing infrastructure as it relates to application and server data, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration. In addition to log analytics, you will help administer a variety of other platforms within the Enterprise Management suite.
More About the Role:
- Architect, design, support, and maintain Splunk infrastructure for a highly available and disaster recovery configuration
- Administer Splunk and Splunk Application for Enterprise Security (ES) log management
- Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
- Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues
- Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards
- Mentor users and other groups on their use of Splunk
- Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
- Design core systems performance and troubleshooting logs
- Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms
- Perform data mining and analysis, utilizing various queries and reporting methods
- Solve complex Integration challenges and debug complex configuration issues
- Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as architecture diagrams, technical designs, and SOPs
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related technical field
- 7 or more years of relevant work experience
- Splunk experience - minimum 2 to 5 years' experience architecting, configuring, deploying, and customizing the tool
- Strong understanding of Splunk configuration files and architecture
- Knowledge of advanced search and reporting commands
- Demonstrated ability to create complex dashboards, forms, and visualizations
- Understanding of System Log Files and other structured and non-structured data
- Intermediate level understanding of Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems
- Current and active Secret Clearance required; SSBI preferred
- Security certification
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- Splunk Architect or Splunk Administrator certification preferred
- Knowledge of a scripting language and UNIX command line
- Experience working in DISA and working with the DISA DECC environment
- Strong knowledge of application monitoring and event management
- Knowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM), Understand the relationship between the CIM and knowledge objects, ability to create a lookup file and create a lookup definition& field aliases and calculated fields
- In depth understanding of Splunk license management preferred
- Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms
What We Can Offer You:
- We've been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation's highest priorities.
- For over 55 years, the principles of CACI's unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
Company Overview: At CACI, you will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing information solutions and services in support of national security missions and government transformation for Intelligence, Defense, and Federal Civilian customers. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.
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