Overview

By Light is seeking a Splunk Administrator to install and maintain Splunk infrastructure, gather requirements from customers, onboard data, and assist end users with search, dashboards, reports, and knowledge objects in support of the Compartmented Enterprise Services Office (CESO) NOC.

With the CESO program, the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) is looking to transform the existing Secure Web Services (SWS) environment, which provides secure information sharing to the community, into a more mature service offering to meet the DoD and intelligence communities. As part of this task order, Leidos will manage the commercial cloud migration and disestablishment of legacy systems, fully automate the continuous development & continuous integration environment, fourth estate consolidation, professionalize services – ITIL/DevSecOps based processes, improve the customer experience 1st call resolution, and achieve development of a service catalog for Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) Model.

This position is in either Alexandria, VA, or Arlington, VA with occasional/situational travel.

Responsibilities

• Administer Splunk in Windows and Linux environments
• Work with existing and custom Splunk applications and add-ons to fulfill customer needs
• Provide operations and maintenance support for a distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles
• Editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps
• Onboard data to Splunk via forwarder, scripted inputs, TCP/UDP, and modular inputs from a variety of sources.
• Provider operational support for Splunk Universal Forwarder on Linux and Windows endpoints
• Manage, and support automation solutions for Splunk deployment and orchestration in on-premise and cloud environments

Required Experience/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or IT and 4 years of experience; Additional experience may substitute for degree
• IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA , GICSP, GSEC, Security CE, CND, SSCP)
• Current Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certification
• Ability to work in a 24/7 operation. 
• Candidate must possess an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain CI Poly.

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• TS/SCI w/CI Poly Preferred
• Prior experienced with DISA and DISA’s support to mission partners

Special Requirements/Security Clearance

• Candidate must possess an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance and be able to obtain and maintain CI Poly.
• By Light does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters; vaccination requirements and testing are subject to the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements; testing is at the cost of the employee.