Cybersecurity Analytics Systems Engineer

Peraton; Town of Florida, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Cybersecurity Analytics Systems Administrator to support SITEC-3 EOM at MacDill AFB, FL. You will manage SIEM platforms, data ingestion, and dashboards while ensuring security controls and system health in a 24x7 environment.

Responsibilities include RBAC, agent deployment, platform upgrades, and collaboration with security analysts to optimize analytics workflows. Requires DoD clearance and IAT II certification.

Qualifications

• DoD TS/SCI clearance required.
• DoD 8570 IAT II certification required.
• DoW 8140 compliance under Work Role Code 451 – Systems Administrator (Intermediate or higher).
• Minimum experience: 12 years with HS; 10 years with AS/AA; 8 years with BS/BA; 6 years with MS/MA.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain enterprise security data and analytics platforms.
• Ensure availability, data integrity, and ingestion pipelines for SIEM.
• Manage access controls and RBAC across analytics platforms.
• Deploy and configure data collection agents across endpoints.
• Monitor platform health, indexer status, and storage tiering.
• Perform platform upgrades and SSL/TLS certificate renewals.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures and dashboard issues.
• Maintain documentation of configurations and changes.
• Assist security analysts with dashboard troubleshooting and SPL/KQL queries.

Skills

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk ES

Microsoft Sentinel

RBAC

SPL Queries

KQL Queries

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

System Monitoring

Tools

Splunk Universal Forwarder

Syslog Daemons

Sentinel Azure Monitor

SPL TA Updates

Job description

Peraton seeks a Cybersecurity Analytics Systems Administrator to support SITEC-3 EOM at MacDill AFB, FL. You will manage SIEM platforms, data ingestion, and dashboards while ensuring security controls and system health in a 24x7 environment.

Responsibilities include RBAC, agent deployment, platform upgrades, and collaboration with security analysts to optimize analytics workflows. Requires DoD clearance and IAT II certification.