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Splunk Administrator
Job Summary: Protect national security by designing and optimizing defense systems, implementing advanced software security techniques, and troubleshooting security issues.
About the Role:
KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to customers in the intelligence and national security communities.
As a Splunk Administrator, you will play a critical role in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement, test, and operate advanced software security techniques in compliance with technical reference architecture
- Perform on-going security testing and code review to improve software security
- Troubleshoot and debug issues that arise
- Provide engineering designs for new software solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities
- Contribute to all levels of the architecture and maintain technical documentation
- Consult team members on secure coding practices
- Develop a familiarity with new tools and best practices
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Design and implement threat detection, automate incident response processes, integration of various security tools with SIEM and SOAR platforms via APIs
- Maintain SIEM applications to collect and aggregate IDS and IPS data from network sensors, raw data from collection agents, firewalls, proxy servers, DLP, antivirus, vulnerability scanner elements, and other security-relevant devices
- Utilize expertise in Splunk Search language, Splunk Dashboards, Reports, Lookup Tables, and Summary Indexes
- Build Splunk dashboards that take inputs from various data sources such as application logs / operating system logs / middleware logs / network feeds etc. and identify / highlight anomalous activities on the dashboards by their severity levels
- Perform troubleshooting and provide assistance with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards
Requirements:
- 8 to 10 years experience with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD
- DoD 8570 Level 3 Certification
- Experience with importing data in Splunk from various sources: endpoint security, network security (Firewalls, IPS/IDS, DNS, Proxy, etc.), data and application security, cloud security and technologies
- Experience with performing systems administration, including performing installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting of Splunk
Benefits:
- Competitive salary: $150,000 to $160,000
- KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule
- We support career advancement through professional training and development
- Inclusion and diversity at
KBR:
we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture.
Salary : $150,000 - $160,000
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