Req ID: RQ184236

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

Job Family: Cyber Engineering

Skills:

Cyber Defense,Cybersecurity,Cyber Threat Intelligence

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Own your career as a Splunk Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build strong lines of cyber defense using cutting-edge technologies. Your work in cyber security at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As Splunk Engineer , you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Splunk Engineer joining our team to provide technical expertise in support of Cyber innovation.

HOW A SPLUNK ENGINEER ADVISOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

Support ongoing OMB M-21-31 efforts

Maturing Splunk Data Lake under CIM Compliance Model

Prioritizing data sources

Identifying parsing and tagging issues

Working with our Splunk Core administrator team to fix the parsing and tagging issues

Updating CIM data models

Working with our Threat Intelligence team to add signatures and detections in Splunk Enterprise Security's Threat Intelligence Framework

Working with our Incident Response team

Creating and tuning detections for attacks and vulnerabilities in Splunk Enterprise Security

Fixing issues with the data in Splunk, such as missing fields or missing data types

Assist our IR team with search queries

Creating scripts to automate tasks

Using Splunk SOAR to create and improve existing automation use cases/playbooks

Configuring and maintaining the Splunk Enterprise Security Asset and Identity Framework

Identifying sources for asset data

Identifying sources for asset location and ownership information

Optimizing and Tuning Splunk UBA

Assisting Splunk users with creating queries, reports and dashboards

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

BA/BS and 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent years of experience

2+ years of Splunk Administration experience

Active Splunk Enterprise Security Admin and Splunk Advanced Power User certifications

Security+/GSEC/CASP/CISSP/Cloud or equivalent 8570 Cyber Security Certification

Ability to manage long term projects

Proactively identify and correct problems

Writing documentation and SOPs

Working with vendor support to resolve issues

Ability to work with other teams at the EPA, such as firewall, networking and vulnerability management teams

Must possess or be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust

US Citizenship required

NICE TO HAVES:

Previous experience at the EPA

Basic knowledge about incident response, threat intelligence and vulnerability management

Familiar with SCCM

Familiar with Microsoft Defender

Familiar with asset management, Xacta, FISMA systems, ADC process

Ability to write scrips in PowerShell and Paython

Existing EPA privileged account

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $114,750 - $155,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of 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 leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as 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. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.