Splunk Software Engineer-TS​/SCI with Poly with Security Clearance

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:

* 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.

* 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.

Qualifications:

Required:

* 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.

* 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…