General Dynamics Information Technology

Cyber Splunk Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $119,000 - $161,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

CloudCyber SecurityFirewallsJavaScriptLinuxPerlPythonSplunk

About the role

  • Provide expertise in scripting/programming to maintain our Cyber operation systems.
  • Support the various Cyber Security tools, applications and network and endpoint hardware.
  • Build, design, test, and deploy perimeter, cloud security systems to support firewalls, proxy devices and other security systems.
  • Administer the core Cyber Security applications that we support such as Syslog and log systems, Splunk, Radius and various other security and system tools.
  • Interface with fellow Cyber and Firewall engineers to gather additional requirements and details.
  • Manage vendor ticket, information gathering, and troubleshooting in the event of a platform issue covering network application issues.
  • Support planning, documents, and implements hardware and software refresh and upgrade of Cyber Security Systems.
  • Support periodic firewall rule set review and auditing for standards and use software.
  • Attend weekly teleconferences, onsite meetings, and participate in working groups, related to constantly changing security environment.

Requirements

  • 10 + years of related experience
  • US Citizenship Required
  • Bachelor degree in a computer science/computer engineering related discipline or 10 years of work experience
  • 5 of these years is maintaining linux systems with use of programming and scripting using Perl, Bash, and Python and other advanced languages
  • 3 of these years in a Cyber Security environment in support of SIEM and or NOC
  • 2 of these supporting IT systems at the enterprise level crossing between Cloud and On Premise environments
  • Excellent Linux user and admin skills demonstrating competency to maintain our Cyber Security systems.
  • Expert in scripting/programming in a Linux environment to support the various Cyber Security tools and applications required.
  • Good knowledge of Javascript, Powershell, and/or Visual Basic
  • Demonstrate the use of regular expressions
  • Knowledge of HTML and web scripting.
  • Experience with Syslog-NG and Squid proxy.
  • Experience with vulnerability management and remediation.
  • Good troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong Linux foundation with perl, python and bash programming experience.
  • Great organizational skills
  • Good to excellent technical writing ability
  • Knowledge, understanding, and ideally experience with certificate generation and ideally operation of a Certificate Authority.
  • Excellent Excel skills.
  • Use of collaboration tools (Teams, Confluence, JIRA).
  • Certifications: One of the following required - Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, or Cribl Certified.
Benefits
  • Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
  • Dental plan options
  • Vision plan
  • 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
  • Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
  • GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
  • Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
scriptingprogrammingLinuxPerlBashPythonJavaScriptPowerShellVisual Basicregular expressions
Soft skills
troubleshootingorganizational skillstechnical writing
Certifications
Splunk Enterprise Certified AdministratorSplunk Enterprise Security Certified AdminCribl Certified