TS/SCI Linux SIEM Engineer — Critical Impact

D2 Consulting; Burke (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Accrued PTO

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

D2 Consulting seeks a Linux SIEM System Engineer in Springfield, VA. The role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines for cybersecurity investigations across Linux, Windows, networking, and cloud assets. Candidates should have strong Linux/Windows experience and be able to collaborate with peers and customers in a fast-paced environment.

The position requires an ACTIVE TS/SCI security clearance. Responsibilities include incident resolution, event management, patching, and maintaining

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Systems Engineer or similar experience.
• IAT II certification and CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days of hire.
• Strong Linux/Windows/networking experience; comfortable with security-focused environments.
• Experience with SIEM technologies such as Elastic, Splunk, ArcSight.

Responsibilities

• Resolve escalated issues and perform root cause analysis for complex issues.
• Communicate with program SMEs and customers with varying technical backgrounds.
• Demonstrate high attention to detail and system-wide analysis.
• Multi-task across several onboarding stages for different customers.
• Apply Configuration Management to maintain revisions, patches, hardening, and documentation.
• Coordinate event collection, log management, and identity monitoring for customer systems.
• Provide preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure service availability
• Maintain system availability and reliability with 99.99% uptime.
• Detect and ticket degradations in SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of degradation start.
• Execute scheduled maintenance per vendor guidance and agency change management.
• Perform vendor revision actions across development, engineering, testing, and integration.
• Retain documentation on loss of event logs.

Skills

Advanced Linux proficiency

Scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

Problem solving & root cause analysis

Effective communication & listening

Time management & self-direction

Education

IAT II certification

CSSP Infrastructure Support certification

Tools

Elastic

Splunk

ArcSight

Cribl data aggregation/normalization

VMware ESXi

Citrix XenServer

Microsoft Hyper-V

AWS

Google Cloud

OpenStack

Job description

D2 Consulting seeks a Linux SIEM System Engineer in Springfield, VA. The role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines for cybersecurity investigations across Linux, Windows, networking, and cloud assets. Candidates should have strong Linux/Windows experience and be able to collaborate with peers and customers in a fast-paced environment.

The position requires an ACTIVE TS/SCI security clearance. Responsibilities include incident resolution, event management, patching, and maintaining