Splunk Engineer, Senior

The Opportunity: 

Are you looking for an opportunity to share your experience in developing tools to safeguard our nation? As a systems security and network security engineer, you can identify the tools needed to assess vulnerabilities and recommend the best solution and security strategy. We need your experience to lead the development and implementation of security solutions that will protect infrastructure.

On our team, you’ll troubleshoot and analyze complex challenges for customers using your knowledge of Splunk. You’ll use your curiosity for technology and market trends to further research and develop security solutions. Using your knowledge and experience in Splunk, you’ll assess security threats and implement infrastructure controls.  

In this role, you’ll closely impact how will what they build make an impact. With mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, we focus on growing as a team to make the best solutions for our customers.

Work with us as we secure and protect financial services for the better. 

What You’ll Work On: 

• Develop relationships quickly and easily with other teams, communicating the complexities of security with a wide variety of audiences, including senior management. 

• Implement infrastructure and cyber security controls, including enhanced detection and vulnerability capabilities and improved event correlation in large enterprises.  

• Perform risk and vulnerability assessments in network, system, and application areas, leverage big data analytics and traditional security event types to identify advanced threats or indicators of compromise.

Join us. The world can’t wait. 

You Have:   

• 10+ years of experience with system integration, including the design, development, and enhancement of cyber systems

• 4+ years of experience with Splunk operations and maintenance

• Experience with maintaining an event schema using customized security severity criteria

• Experience with creating scheduled and ad-hoc reporting using Splunk

• Experience with extraction, transformation, and loading of data, including SPL and Regex

• Knowledge of SIEM technologies and event collection mechanisms in Windows and Linux operating environments

• Ability to build and implement event correlation rules, logic, and content in the security information and event management system in the Splunk platform

• Public Trust

• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:   

• Experience with a cloud-based Splunk deployment

• Experience with supporting a Security Operation Center’s Splunk deployment

• Experience as a security engineer or security analyst

• Ability to tune SIEM event correlation rules and logic to filter out security events associated with known and well established network behavior, known false positives, or known errors

• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including, understanding, documenting, communicating, and presenting technical issues in a non-technical manner to audiences with varying degrees of technical expertise

• Possession of excellent problem-solving skills

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics

• Splunk Architect-level Certification

  

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.  

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $75,600.00 to $172,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely.

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a Booz Allen or client site facility.
• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role.

EEO Commitment

We’re an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that empowers our people to fearlessly drive change – no matter their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.