Sr. Data Engineer I (Splunk) (6652)
$170,000–$239,000 year
Hybrid · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Sr. Data Engineer I (Splunk) to design and manage Splunk data ingestion pipelines and dashboards supporting mission-critical use cases for federal government operations. Operate and maintain Splunk Enterprise in a secure, high-availability environment; support security monitoring, detection, and incident response; participate in Agile execution; optimize data pipelines, performance, and data quality; communicate technical insights to stakeholders; establish customer trust through reliable delivery; contribute innovative solutions aligned to customer needs.
Required Qualifications
- Active U.S. Government Issued Top Secret security clearance (or higher level classification)
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator or equivalent demonstrated administrative capability and Security+
- DoD 8140 certification aligned to the 521 Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist work role, such as Security+, SSCP, CySA+, PenTest+, CASP+, GCIH, CISSP, or GSLC
- 5+ years of experience in data management or systems administration, including at least 3 years of hands-on experience in an enterprise Splunk environment
- Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, and managing on-prem enterprise Splunk services integrated with systems and networks
- Hands-on experience performing data onboarding, including log ingestion, parsing, normalization, and index management
- Proven ability to build and maintain Splunk dashboards, searches, and reports to support operational and security use cases
- Operational experience managing Splunk infrastructure, including forwarders, indexers, search heads, and performance tuning
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