Splunk Software Engineer-TS​/SCI 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

• 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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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 environments.

• Familiarity with Dev Ops workflows including CI/CD pipelines, version control best…