Senior Splunk Engineer

Overview

Senior Splunk Engineer — Oakton, VA

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you. Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

The Senior Splunk Engineer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing the enterprise SIEM infrastructure with a strong focus on log correlation, alerting, and operational dashboards. This role combines Splunk expertise with advanced network awareness to drive threat detection, baselining, and event correlation across enterprise and air-gapped environments. The ideal candidate collaborates closely with network engineers, threat analysts, and Extra Hop SMEs to interpret packet-level data and refine alert logic for mission-focused visibility.

• Lead the design and optimization of Splunk dashboards, alerts, correlation searches, and data ingestion for security and network observability
• Collaborate with network and Extra Hop teams to integrate flow data, traffic patterns, and anomalies into actionable Splunk detections
• Support development of network baseline visualizations and identify deviations using correlated log and traffic data
• Tune log sources and ingestion pipelines to improve performance, reduce false positives, and enhance signal fidelity
• Develop and manage Splunk content related to firewalls, VPNs, proxies, routers, switches, and endpoint devices
• Work with analysts to interpret detection triggers in context of network flows, packet captures, and behavior anomalies
• Configure and maintain Splunk components including apps, indexes, forwarders, and CIM data models
• Produce documentation, runbooks, and training for SOC teams and technical stakeholders
• Operate in both connected and disconnected environments; support secure enclave deployments of Splunk
• Mentor junior engineers and analysts in SPL, dashboarding, and detection development
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelors degree in a related field OR
• Associates degree with an additional 2+ years of relevant IT experience OR
• High school diploma or GED equivalent with an additional 4+ years of directly related IT experience in lieu of degree
• 12+ years of cybersecurity or network engineering experience with 3+ years of Splunk engineering and content development
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security (ES) in air-gapped or mission-secure environments
• Must hold a current DoD 8140 (or 8570) baseline certification at the IAT Level II or higher (e.g., CompTIA Security+)
• S. Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Expert-level Splunk SPL development and content creation
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, packet structures, and network traffic analysis
• Familiarity with Extra Hop, Solar Winds, and PCAP-based threat identification
• Ability to correlate multi-source logs with behavioral and network data to create high-fidelity detections
• Experience tuning and normalizing data to align with Splunk CIM and ES frameworks
• Proficiency with regex, lookup tables, macros, and dashboard visualizations
• Excellent documentation and mentoring skills
• Comfortable working across cyber, networking, and threat teams to improve detection and visibility

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team…