Splunk Security Engineer

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to support our nation's defense. Make an impact by connecting and securing critical operations across the globe, keeping our country safe and secure.

Job Description

SPLUNK SECURITY ENGINEER

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Splunk Security Engineer at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

As a Splunk Security Engineer, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of NATO SOFCOM. You will play a crucial role in providing Senior SIEM Engineering, Splunk Enterprise Security Administration, security data onboarding, and cyber analytics in support of NATO SOFCOM networks.

• Administer and optimize Splunk Enterprise Security, indexers, search heads, forwarders, deployment servers, indexes and license consumption.
• Develop and tune SPL queries, correlation searches, dashboards, alerts, security analytics and threat-detection use cases mapped to relevant tactics and techniques.
• Onboard and normalize authorized log sources, maintain Common Information Model mappings and validate log quality, integrity and retention.
• Support threat hunting, event triage, incident investigations, evidence collection and coordination with the cybersecurity team.
• Document approved configuration changes, operating procedures, deployment architecture, incident findings and SIEM health metrics.
• Support NATO/DoW compliance reporting and continuous improvement of detection coverage, with execution of changes through approved procedures.
• Design and develop solutions for customer systems and networks.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Splunk Security Engineer must have:

• Education: BA/BS or equivalent years of experience
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• Technical skills: Splunk, SPL queries, CIM tuning, Dashboard customization
• Certifications: IAT Level II or higher, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, and ITIL Foundation (within 90 days of hire)
• Security clearance level: Active Secret required to start
• Location: On-site in Mons, Belgium
• Belgian SOFA Requirement: 6-12 week review process submitted to the Belgian government by GDIT on the applicant’s behalf. Request will be submitted after candidate is chosen.
  

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
  

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore a career in cyber at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your focus on defending and protecting what matters.

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA

ITIL Foundation (Version 5) | PeopleCert - PeopleCert

Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin | Splunk - Splunk

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required