Splunk Applications Developer

Splunk Applications Developer

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Leidos National Security Sector is seeking an Applications Developer to support an enterprise IT program. We are looking for a strong Splunk developer who has proficiency in creating dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications.

Our client’s monitoring team uses Splunk to collect detailed system audit and performance logs necessary for system accreditation, troubleshooting, and security reporting. The team is responsible for collection of this data and working with system owners and users to get the most out of the data collection. We require a candidate who has proficiency in creating dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications.

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In this role you will:

• Collect and report on hosted systems,
• Maintain clustered Splunk infrastructure, including search head and index cluster, deployment server, deployer, license manager, heavy and universal forwarders, Distributed Management Console (DMC),
• Onboard new data sources, monitor the health of existing data feeds,
• Deploy and manage Splunk apps, including writing custom apps where needed,
• Design and implement data flow and accesses across different networks and system interfaces, for example between Splunk and AWS, or between Splunk and network devices.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks such as adding or deleting indexes, sizing volumes, adding data inputs, patching the OS and upgrading Spunk, automation of routine tasks and troubleshoot data flow interruptions, data quality issues, performance issues,
• Collaborate with other functional teams such as network, storage, security to provide Splunk service where needed across entire customer network,
• Document architecture, how-to guides, troubleshooting documents,
• Create dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications,
• Collect information for reporting on hosted systems.

Required Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience. Additional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience working with Splunk and Linux.
• Demonstrated experience understanding Splunk distributed architecture and data pipelines, with hands-on implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk client management and apps management.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating Splunk with various data sources such as syslog, flat files, databases, APIs, cloud platform logs, HEC endpoints.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk SPL to create searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk conf files to manage inputs, props, transforms, and similar.
• Demonstrated experience with fluency with Linux OS (RHEL or Rocky 8) and Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Demonstrated experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• Demonstrated experience with PowerShell for task automation.
• Demonstrated experience with custom apps development.
• Demonstrated experience with Regular Expression.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS SDK and CLI to programmatically interface with AWS.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.