Splunk Specialist — Log Collection and Detection Support for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Henegouwen; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WLG in Belgium seeks a senior security monitoring engineer to own a large distributed Splunk estate and lead log collection and detection tooling for the cyber security data team.

You will design, deploy and maintain distributed architectures, monitor for anomalies, and drive improvements. The role requires hands-on Splunk work, Linux mastery, scripting, and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to non-specialists.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Splunk administration in large enterprise environments.
• Expert-level background in log collection and security monitoring management.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Scripting to automate tasks: Bash, Python or Ansible.
• Solid grounding in computer and network security.
• Clear technical writing and ability to explain complex problems to non-specialists.
• Nice to have: CISSP, CISM or GIAC certifications.

Responsabilités

• Acting as the subject matter expert for the monitoring platform and feeding components.
• Designing, deploying and maintaining distributed architectures and keeping the estate installed and configured.
• Watching every component, spotting abnormal behaviour in logs, and taking action.
• Keeping the service within performance targets agreed with customers.
• Integrating external tooling and driving improvements to keep the environment current.
• Writing business cases and implementation plans for change boards and delivering changes.
• Producing documentation, procedures and design notes, plus reporting.
• Taking on-call rotations to ensure monitoring availability.

Connaissances

Splunk administration

Distributed architectures

Linux administration

Regular expressions

Bash scripting

Python

Ansible

Security monitoring

Log collection

Technical writing

Outils

Git

Description du poste

A multinational defence organisation runs its security monitoring on a large, distributed Splunk estate, and is looking for the engineer who will own it. This is the senior technical voice on log collection and detection tooling for a cyber security data team, not a ticket-queue role.

What You Would Be Doing

• Acting as the subject matter expert for the monitoring platform and everything that feeds it — advising other teams, sizing changes and taking the technical lead on related projects.
• Designing, deploying and maintaining distributed architectures, and keeping the whole estate installed, configured and behaving.
• Watching every component, spotting abnormal behaviour early in system, security and application logs, and taking the technical and the non-technical action needed to clear it.
• Keeping the service inside the performance targets agreed with the customers it protects.
• Integrating external tooling, and proposing the improvements that keep the environment current instead of merely alive.
• Writing up the business case and the implementation plan for change boards, then delivering the approved change with the other teams involved.
• Producing documentation, procedures and design notes, plus technical and executive reporting and the occasional briefing to a senior audience.
• Taking a turn on call, so that monitoring stays available when something breaks out of hours.

What you would bring

• Hands-on time administering Splunk in a large enterprise — deployment, installation, configuration and maintenance — and real experience of distributed designs.
• Expert-level background in log collection and security monitoring management, with the analytical habit of reading logs to diagnose rather than to confirm.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting, and comfort with regular expressions.
• Scripting to take the repetition out of the work: Bash, Python or Ansible.
• A solid grounding in computer and communication security, networking, and where modern operating systems and applications tend to be weak.
• Clear technical writing and the ability to explain a complicated problem to people who do not share your background.
• Nice to have: Enterprise Security, SOAR and UBA, custom parsers, Git, cloud log collection, and an industry certification such as CISSP, CISM or a GIAC.

Extensions are offered where the work goes well. Applications are reviewed as they arrive.