Splunk Software Engineer-TS​/SCI Poly

Position: Splunk Software Engineer-TS/SCI with Poly
Job Title:

Splunk Software Engineer-TS/SCI with Poly

Job Category:
Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:
None

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* The Opportunity:

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* + The Splunk Software Engineer (SWE) is a Linux‑focused, highly versatile engineering generalist with strong troubleshooting, automation, and cross‑domain security experience who serves on a cross‑functional team of systems engineers. They also act as the team's subject matter expert for Splunk applications and analytics.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

+ Serve as the team's Linux expert, performing OS installation, configuration, user management, networking, and system maintenance.

+ Manage hardware using tools like iDRAC, including BIOS updates, firmware upgrades, RAID configuration, and basic hardware troubleshooting.

+ Troubleshoot complex issues across operating systems, hardware, networks, data flows, and applications.

+ Build and manipulate files using core UNIX utilities, including creating tar archives, splitting files, and preparing data for constrained transfer paths.

+ Support automation workflows using Salt, and adapt quickly from related tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

+ Build, deploy, or maintain Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) or similar high‑assurance boundary security technologies.

+ Act as the team's subject matter expert for Splunk applications, dashboards, data routing, and analytics.

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* Qualifications:

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Required:

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+ Strong Linux system administration experience, including OS installation, configuration, user and permission management, networking fundamentals, and command‑line operations.

+ Experience managing hardware using tools like iDRAC (or similar), including BIOS and firmware updates, RAID configuration, and basic hardware troubleshooting.

+ Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across operating systems, hardware, networks, applications, and data flows.

+ Proficiency with core UNIX command‑line utilities for file manipulation, packaging, and transfer (e.g., tar, split, checksum tools).

+ Experience using Salt for configuration management or build automation, or strong adjacent experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

+ Experience building, deploying, or maintaining Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) such or similar high‑assurance boundary security technologies.

+ Experience supporting or developing Splunk applications, dashboards, data routing, and analytics as the team's Splunk subject matter expert.

** Must have experience in at least 4 of the below technologies:*
* -Java Script

-Regular Expressions (Reg Ex)

-REST services

-Python frameworks

-Elasticsearch or Splunk

-CI/CD processes

-Monitoring tools (such as Nagios or Elastic Beats)

-Apache Ni Fi

-React or Angular

-Dev Ops tools (Ansible, Salt, Docker)

-Cribl

Education and Experience:

+ All experience and education must be in a technical field directly related to the labor category and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions.

+ 7 years minimum experience and a High School Diploma/GED

+ 5 years minimum experience and an Associate's Degree

+ 3 years minimum experience and a Bachelor's Degree

+ 1 year minimum experience and a Master's Degree

+ Splunk certification in Splunk Accredited Core Implementation

_Desired:_

+ Advanced Linux expertise, including system recovery techniques, deep command‑line proficiency, including expertise with ssh/tunneling, authentication/certificates, and tools such as sed, awk, grep, rsync, and dd.

+ Experience performing hardware lifecycle operations such as disk replacement, RAID adjustments, firmware baselining, and remote KVM troubleshooting.

+ Hands‑on experience optimizing or customizing Salt states, modules, or orchestration workflows.

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Experience with adjacent automation frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform in mixed‑tool environments.

+ Prior experience designing, modifying, or validating configurations and filtering rules for CDS or other high‑assurance boundary security technologies.

+ Experience integrating Splunk into constrained, air‑gapped, or cross‑domain…