Senior Splunk Engineer

Key Elements of this Role:

- Remote work but some travel may be required - dependent on contract

- Must have a SCCC (Splunk Core Certified Consultant)

Who We Are:

At Qmulos, we're not just about cybersecurity and compliance, we're about making them smarter and faster, in this digital world! We've created innovative platforms like Q-Compliance and Q-Audit that help organizations across all sectors stay ahead of evolving threats. We use Splunk's powerful analytics to deliver insights that enhance security and streamline risk management, transforming legacy compliance programs into modern, agile solutions.

But what really sets us apart is our stellar culture, which stands as the cornerstone of our success. Our team thrives on collaboration, creativity, and a shared passion for making a real difference. Join us, and be part of a team that's not only driving change in the industry but having a blast while doing it!

Summary:

A Splunk Engineer is a top tier Splunk consultant, balancing out technical ability with great interpersonal skills to provide superb professional services for both private and public sector clients. These engineers are fast learners, adaptable, and willing to take on new and challenging projects.

Though short term engagements may be required, Splunk engineers are typically expected to support long term contracts which primarily focus on Splunk Core. These engineers must be resourceful, and good at troubleshooting under tight timelines. While Qmulos provides significant team support, Splunk Engineers must also be able to work and succeed independently.

Skillfully navigating competing priorities, varied customer personalities, and changing environments is essential to being successful in this role. Splunk Engineers should expect to become more involved with Splunk Premium Applications as they progress through various assignments.

These engineers must have on the job experience with Splunk Core, and maintain the Splunk Core Consultant Certification.

Responsibilities:

• Enable customer success by providing a well-rounded consulting experience from project kickoff through completion.
• Operate and maintain the Splunk log management infrastructure and leverage knowledge on a number of security technologies, information security, and networking.
• Comprehensive experience in interacting with clients, providing security focused log collection solutions using Splunk.
• Develop security focused content for complex client Splunk deployments, with focus on creation of complex detection, alerting logic and log source on-boarding using custom methods or Splunk common information model (CIM).
• Develop advanced reports to meet the requirements of key stakeholders and scalable security management tools and processes.
• Conduct research in areas, including security principles, host and network-based security technologies, machine learning algorithms, and mitigation methods.
• Automate Splunk deployments, integrations, testing of enterprise systems and services.
• Create and optimize correlation searches as an (SPL) expert.
• Establish regular, effective, comprehensive reporting for services engagements in accordance with customer requirements
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Willingness to travel if required.

In addition to the Splunk Engineer description above, this individual has:

• Experience supporting a customer with a large scale (1-5 TB+ daily ingest) environment
• Experience and comfortable with both distributed and clustered environments
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of or experience with Splunk Premium Applications

Required Skills/Abilities:

• U.S. Citizenship REQUIRED
• 5+ years of technical consulting or big data analytics experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Splunk, network security and system security, supporting security information and event management tools (SIEMs)
• 2+ years of experience with rule and advanced logic creation within Splunk
• Knowledge of Splunk and JIRA best practices
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
• Experience with using scripting languages to automate tasks and manipulate data
• Experience with working in a large enterprise environment
• Experience with integrating…