About the position
Peraton is seeking a Splunk Software Engineer to join our team in Linthicum, MD. Our dynamic team delivers information security solutions that facilitate secure data flows and the detection/prevention of unauthorized behaviors, performs system security vulnerability assessments and solution development, provide enterprise-level network, server, desktop, and application security services. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. The ideal candidate will need to possess experience in Splunk Architecture as well as building and designs.
Responsibilities
- Act as the Splunk SME providing input into strategies, capabilities, and integrations to improve the availability and performance of applications.
- Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc.
- Design Splunk systems to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, and agility.
- Design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.
- Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products.
- Design and size Splunk architectures.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph is required.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline with eight (8) years of software engineering (SWE) experience; master's degree with six (6) years of experience; PhD with three (3) years of experience. 14 years of SWE experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Must have one of the following Splunk certifications: Splunk Certified User, Splunk Certified Power User, Splunk Certified Admin, Splunk Accredited Core Implementation, Splunk Accredited Consultant.
- Ability to design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.
- Demonstrated experience developing software system installation, build procedures, and scripts.
- Ability to analyze and resolve system performance issues (e.g. response time or timing problems, interface/integration problems, system bottlenecks, data flow issues).
- Ability to build a new Splunk instance to replace an existing system's capabilities.
Nice-to-haves
- Security certifications: SANS, CISSP, etc.
- Background of creating and managing app and its components.
- Proficiency with Splunk component utilization (e.g. Indexer loads and requirements, search head peering, etc), component resourcing, inter-component communications and tradeoffs and underlying platform requirements.
- Knowledge of two of the following programming languages: Perl, Python, SQL, Shell.
- Experience providing architecture-level design to support and operate Splunk using security information and event management (SIEM) or security event management (SEM) best practices and Splunk enterprise security.
Benefits
- Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents.
- 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap.
- Eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
