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Sr. Splunk SIEM Engineer (7699)

richmond, VA 23219

Posted: 07/30/2024 Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire Job Category: Other Area(s) Job Number: 7699

Job Description

Job Title: Sr. Splunk SIEM Engineer 

Duration: 6-month contract to hire
Schedule: HYBRID (3 days onsite)


Key Responsibilities:
  • Development, deployment, or administration of Splunk.
  • Onboard Splunk ES critical data sources - ingestion of critical data sources/data logs from the enterprise into the Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tool to meet the Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) implementation.
  • Normalize Log Data to Common Information Model (CIM) as required by Splunk ES to meet the provided security use cases (Rules/Alerts).
  • Create viewable Splunk dashboards to provide visibility into ingested log data.
  • Create alerts that trigger/activate on configured setting to deploy or sends a note, email, or attachments to a particulate destination email or groups.
  • Create security rules (alerts) that trigger on anomalous activities or threat detections.
  • Splunk Support - Assisting Customers with any issues when ingestion of logs that are not working properly or communication issues with Splunk.
  • Resolve Splunk infrastructure or system issues.
  • Check virtual server availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency.
  • Monitor and maintain virtual server configuration.
  • Diagnose failed servers or connectivity problems.

Required Skills and Experience:
  • Experience working with cloud services such as AWS, Azure and M365 and cloud access security brokers.
  • Experience in the use of network monitoring tools with a strong understanding of network protocols.
  • Ability to perform security analysis, development and implementation of security policies, standards, and guidelines.
  • Ability to quickly explore, examine and understand complex security problems and how it affects a customer’s business.
  • Experience with both the Linux and Windows operating systems.
  • Experience with SOAR and Firewall platforms from Palo Alto Networks                               
  • Completed bachelor’s degree from an accredited university is required, preferably in an IT related field. 
  • Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience related to the qualifications above, including work with security monitoring tools such as IDS/IPS, FWs and NACs and protocols such as NetFlow (Snort, Bro, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Palo, Arista, ISE, FireEye, Gigamon).


 

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