Senior Splunk / Elastic Engineer

Leidos; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Splunk/Elastic Engineer to support the GSMO II IDIQ contract’s DISA J-6 Cyber Security Task Order in Alexandria, VA. The role requires an active Secret clearance and will be based onsite in the Alexandria area.

You will design dashboards, monitor compliance, and develop automated data visualization services across Splunk/Elastic, leveraging multiple security tools to validate controls and posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Active Secret security clearance required prior to start.
• DoD 8570 IAM II certification required.
• Splunk Core Certified Power User or higher.
• Elastic Certified Analyst or higher.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design efficient and reusable reports and dashboards to integrate health and performance data in Splunk/Elastic.
• Direct and monitor reporting in Splunk/Elastic dashboards for compliance status and directives.
• Create front-end automated data visualization services using Splunk/Elastic.
• Create viewable dashboards for ingested log data visibility.
• Create alerts to deploy notes/emails/attachments to destinations.
• Create security rules/alerts for anomalous activity or threat detections.
• Utilize Splunk/Elastic, ACAS, HBSS, Tanium to assess/monitor security posture.

Skills

Clear communication

Security clearance

DoD experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

DoD 8570 IAM II certification

Splunk Core Certified Power User

Elastic Certified Analyst

Tools

Splunk

Elastic

Qmulos

ACAS

HBSS

Tanium

Job description

Leidos is seeing a Splunk/Elastic Engineer on our GSMO II IDIQ contract’s DISA J-6 Cyber Security Task Order in Alexandria, VA. DISA J-6 provides a full range of IT products, services, and solutions and customer services to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Staff (JS), Director of Administration (DA), Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), and other OSD offices for them to meet mission and business requirements. Through the DISA J-6 Cyber Security program, DISA J-6 performs a wide variety of services and functions required to secure the information security posture for DoD services.

An active Secret security clearance is required prior to start and this role will be based onsite in the Alexandria, VA area.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Design efficient and reusable reports and dashboards to integrate multiple mission applications’ health, performance and operational data systems into Splunk/Elastic
• Direct and monitor reporting in Splunk/Elastic dashboards to reflect compliance status of DISA J-6 with all directed information assurance vulnerability alerts and bulletins, Computer Tasking Orders, and other compulsory cyber security directives.
• Create front-end automated data visualization services using Splunk/Elastic
• Create viewable Splunk/Elastic dashboards to provide visibility into ingested log data
• Create alerts that trigger/activate on configured setting to deploy or sends a note/email/attachments to a particulate destination email or groups
• Create security rules (alerts) that trigger on anomalous activities or threat detections
• Utilize Qmulos, Splunk, Assured Compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), Host Based Security System (HBSS), and Tanium to assess/validate/monitor the security controls and security posture of the enterprise and system level in order to support on-going authorization.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Active Secret security clearance is required prior to start.
• DoD 8570 IAM II certification
• Splunk Core Certified Power User, Equivalent certification or higher
• Elastic Certified Analyst, Equivalent certification or higher
• Excellent written and oral communications skills and be able to appropriately present highly technical material to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience as a network intrusion analyst or Security Operations Center analyst.
• Experience configuring and maintaining the tool in a multi-tenant environment
• Experience with one or more Security tools:
  • Qmulos
  • ACAS
  • HBSS
  • Tanium

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Original Posting:

September 16, 2026

For U.S. Positions: 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:

Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.