SRE Cyber Tools, Splunk Admin

Leidos

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Work type
On-site
Location
Norfolk, VA
Salary
$107,900–$195,050 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.

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TL;DR · SRE Cyber Tools, Splunk Admin

JOB TITLE: SRE Cyber Tools - Splunk Admin. The SRE Cyber Tools - Splunk Admin joins the SRE organization to support the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. This role focuses on the operations and maintenance of distributed Splunk Enterprise platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. You will perform daily platform operations, including monitoring data ingestion, troubleshooting parsing issues, and maintaining dashboards, alerts, and knowledge objects. Key responsibilities include supporting platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and STIG compliance within an Agile/DevOps culture. You will utilize Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate testing frameworks and manage data pipelines. The work addresses the technical challenge of ensuring system resilience and performance under load for mission-critical cybersecurity operations, ensuring all services meet established service level objectives while maintaining robust, scalable production infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Administer and maintain distributed Splunk Enterprise environments across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Monitor platform health, data ingestion, indexing throughput, and search performance to troubleshoot technical issues.
  • Develop and execute automated testing frameworks to simulate real-world conditions and validate system resilience.
  • Support Splunk Cloud integrations and maintain applications, dashboards, alerts, and saved searches.
  • Perform patching, vulnerability remediation, and STIG compliance to ensure system hardening.
  • Execute platform upgrades, migrations, and infrastructure modernization using scripting and configuration-management tools.
  • Participate in incident response, outage troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for mission-critical operations.
  • Maintain operational documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret Security Clearance.
  • Requires a BS degree with 8-10 years of relevant experience or a Master’s with 7 years of relevant experience.
  • Must have a DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification.
  • Must have a Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin or Splunk Cloud Certified Admin Certification.
  • Minimum three years of experience administering Splunk Enterprise v9 in hybrid cloud and on-premises production environments.
  • Experience administering and troubleshooting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and/or RHEL 9 servers.
  • Experience with STIGs, Risk Management Framework (RMF), vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
  • Experience using at least one scripting language such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

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