SIEM Engineer / Splunk Certified Administrator

Location

Annapolis Junction, MD | United States

Job description

SIEM (Security Information & Event Management) Engineer / Splunk Certified Admin

woodcons.com

Seeking a Security Information & Event Management Engineer / Splunk Certified Administrator.

Security Clearance Requirements:

This position requires candidates to be U.S. Citizens and possess a TS/SCI Security Clearance with an appropriate Polygraph.

• Responsible for configuring the collection, parsing, correlation, and visualization of events for a critical operational system.
• Demonstrate strong skills in system administration, log management, event correlation, and threat detection and will support building and maintaining a system that analyzes collected data and derives facts, inferences, and projections to determine if the systems being monitored are operating normally.
• Work on a team responsible for configuring the systems which support analysts and end-users.
• Support the collection and extraction of data used to refine existing and new reports, analytics, and dashboards, and will be involved with the drafting and creation of reports and dashboards based on end-user requirements.
• Support the integration of resources across teams to better define the audit data being collected to eliminate false positives and false negatives from the data.

Required Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Assurance, or a related discipline is preferred.
• At least 8 years of related experience.

Required Skills

• At least 2 years of experience with one or more of the following: StealthWatch, TripWire, Zenoss, ArcSight, Splunk.

• Experience in design, implementation, and support of Splunk core components, including: indexers, forwarders, search heads, and cluster managers.

• Experience with configuration and administration of Splunk ingestion and forwarding for new and existing applications and data.

• Experience with troubleshooting Splunk dataflow issues between the various Splunk core components.

• Experience configuring and deploying data collection for a variety of operating systems and networking platforms.

• Experience creating Dashboards and Analytics within SIEM tools.

• Experience working with monitoring systems supporting auditing, incident response, and system health.

• Understanding of networking components and devices, ports, protocols, and basic networking troubleshooting steps.

• The ability to troubleshoot issues with log feeds, search time, and field extractions.

• The ability to troubleshoot problems related to data solutions.

Desired Skills

• Network Security Operations Center (SOC) experience.
• Experience and talent in data visualization.
• Experience creating workflows for Incident Response within a SIEM Tool.
• Formal SIEM training.
• Experience working on an Agile team/program.

Desired Certifications

• Security+ Certification.

• GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification.

• GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification.

• Cybersecurity certifications.

WOOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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