Senior Splunk Engineer
On-site · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Senior Splunk Engineer to design, implement, and optimize Splunk solutions for Federal customers in Washington, DC; lead deployment of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud; build dashboards, ingest data from diverse sources (e.g., syslogs, APIs, cloud services); develop correlation searches, threat detection use cases, and support incident response aligned with NIST and federal frameworks; mentor junior engineers; maintain thorough documentation of configurations, processes, and best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Active Top Secret Clearance with the ability to pass a Lifestyle Polygraph
- Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Mathematics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or related discipline
- Eight years of relevant professional experience in applicable technology
- Proficient in designing, implementing, and managing Splunk environments, including cluster architecture
- Advanced knowledge of Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
- Expertise in developing complex queries, dashboards, and reports using SPL
- Ability to optimize searches for performance and scalability
- Strong experience in data onboarding, parsing, and indexing, including log management and extraction of meaningful metrics
- Familiar with Syslog, HTTP Event Collectors (HEC), and APIs
- Knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and/or IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
- Experience configuring and managing Splunk ES and/or ITSI modules
- Understanding of SIEM concepts
- Proficiency with REST APIs and scripting tools (e.g. Python, Bash) to automate tasks and integrations
- In-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration, including shell scripting and performance tuning
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and managing Splunk in cloud environments
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve Splunk performance issues
- Experience with scaling Splunk in large environments and ensuring high availability
- EEO Compliance: Ryde is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
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