Cybersecurity Engineer; Splunk

PACE LLC is a government contracting firm based in the Washington, DC area. We are dedicated to providing first-class professional support, leadership, and performance to meet the goals and objectives of our clients. We are the champions and trusted advisors of government & industry leaders. We are the value-proposition you seek to enhance your PACE of excellence! PACE LLC is currently seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer for a full-time position supporting the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) onsite at Richmond, VA or Columbus, OH.

The JETS Program provides the full range of IT services, technical and management expertise that support applications, software, hardware, infrastructure, and systems, across the DLA IT Enterprise. Support is provided for information technology solutions, technical support, maintenance, and sustainment; operations support; application development, maintenance, and technical support; and lifecycle management. Additionally, the program also supports administrative program management support for IT program offices and DLA Information Operations (J6) Office.

The program provides support technology services across the DLA Information Operations Enterprise, the DLA Program Executive Offices (PEO), and all other technology services currently supported through DLA Contracting Services Office (DCSO) acquisitions.

• 7 years relevant IT experience
• DoD 8140 - Primary DCWF Work Role 521 Proficiency Level: Intermediate certification
• Secondary DCWF Work Role 451 :
  Proficiency Level: Intermediate Certification
• Splunk Administrator
• Linux+
• Active Top Secret Clearance

• CERT or SOC Experience : Knowledge of or hands-on experience with Incident Response and Incident Handling processes.
• SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) : Experience with SIEM tools for monitoring, analysis, and threat detection.
• SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) : Familiarity with automation capabilities and ability to identify new opportunities for process automation.
• UAM (User Activity Monitoring) : Understanding of user behavior analysis and activity monitoring solutions.
• Linux: Working knowledge of Linux environments.
• Cribl: Experience using Cribl for data routing, observability pipelines, or log management.

• Perform a variety of routine project tasks applied to specialized information assurance problems
• Execute integration of electronic processes or methodologies to resolve total system problems, or technology problems as they relate to IA requirements
• Conduct security assessments and security consulting services
• Analyze information security requirements
• Apply analytical and systematic approaches in the resolution of problems of work flow, organization, and planning
• Provides security engineering support for planning, design, development, testing, demonstration, integration of information systems
• Analyze threat information gathered from logs, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), intelligence reports, vendor sites, and a variety of other sources

• Seven (7) years' relevant IT experience
  • Experience creating custom dashboards and reports in Splunk using threat data.
  • Experience in the integration and sustainment of Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
  • Individuals with experience with enterprise deployment of Splunk may be eligible for alternate work locations (in commuting proximity to DLA locations)
• Must possess the DoD 8140 - Primary DCWF Work Role 521 Proficiency Level: Intermediate (Advanced included below)
  • GMON
  • GRID
  • CEH
  • CISSP-ISSAP
  • CISSP-ISSEP
  • Cloud+
  • CySA+
  • GCIA
  • GICSP
  • GSEC
  • Pen Test+
  • Security+
  • SSCP
• Secondary DCWF Work Role 451 :
  Proficiency Level: Intermediate (Advanced included below)
  • SecurityX / CASP+
  • CCNP Security
  • CCSP
  • Cloud+
  • FITSP-O
  • GFACT
  • GICSP
  • GSEC
  • Security+
  • SSCP
• Computing Environment Requirements with required experience:
  • Linux+
  • Splunk Administrator
• Candidates must possess active Top Secret clearance.
• Preferred Experience:
  • DOD IA experience

PACE LLC culture supports a strong work life balance and offers a comprehensive benefit package, to include healthcare (medical, dental, vision and disability), 401 (k) plan where employees are fully vested in their own contributions, as well as the employer-provided match, from their first day of…