Platinum Technologies is seeking a Splunk Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the development and implementation of cyber engineering strategies, tools, and techniques to enhance a systems cyber-resiliency against existing and emerging cyber-threats.

Who we are!

Platinum Technologies is a Northern Virginia based integrated solutions firm that specializes in Cybersecurity, Cloud and Digital Services to the Public Sector. Our team provides high-end, quality resources to help our Mission Partners realize their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products – we want to hear from you.

You.

Platinum Technologies is seeking a Splunk Subject Matter Expert for our fast-growing company.

This position will be located in Scott Air Force Base, IL An active Secret Clearance is required for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Perform installation, configuration management, capacity planning, license management, data integration, data transformation, field extraction, event parsing, data preview, and application management of the Splunk platform
• Design and customize complex search queries, and promote advanced searching, forensics and analytics, Develop dashboards, data models, reports and optimize their performance.
• Develop, implement, and document configuration standards, policies, and procedures for operating, managing, and ensuring the security of the Splunk infrastructure.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes related to Splunk.
• Work closely with Linux and Windows server administration teams to diagnose and resolve configuration issues.
• Ability to create overarching strategies for design as it relates to monitoring the application, infrastructure, interfaces and critical business transactions to provide a comprehensive set of service level metrics and key performance indicators.
• Be responsible for designing & setting up the ingestion of various customer data flows to include pre-processing data into a useable format.
• Design & integrate Splunk with a wide variety of data sources and developing associated knowledge objects such as dashboards, reports, alerts for Network Monitoring and Analytics
• Assist in developing recommended improvements to engineering requirements and specifications.
• Provide overall engineering and design support for a distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles.
• Familiar with recognizing and onboarding new data sources into Splunk, analyzing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data.
• Ability to support Windows and Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps.
• Work with other Cybersecurity and Network Engineering team members and will be required to interact with customer to gather requirements, perform troubleshooting, and provide assistance

Required skills:

• Minimum five (5) years of experience.
• Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect certificate and /or Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin certificate
• Must have experience designing and implementing medium to large Splunk instances
• Must have experience with implementing Splunk within cloud environments
• Must have experience writing Splunk Technical Add-ons
• Hands on experience with Security Tools such as IDS/IPS, Anti-virus, Endpoint Management
• Full system engineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, integration, test, documentation, and implementation following defined best practices and operational workflow
• Possess in-depth technical and theoretical knowledge of cyber defensive operations and technologies
• Event flows (i.e. Syslog)
• Security Information Event Management (SIEM)
• Hands on experience with Virtualization Technology such as VMWare
• Experience working in a large government or corporate enterprise environment.
• Must have experience with relational databases
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in a senior Splunk role
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to obtain a DoD Secret clearance

Platinum Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information.