TS/SCI Splunk Engineer — Data Analytics & Monitoring

CDW; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CDW is seeking a senior Splunk engineer to design, implement, and optimize Splunk environments across on-prem and cloud, delivering data-driven insights for ops and security.

You will work onsite at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, MD, bringing 8+ years of Splunk experience and collaborating with application owners and network engineers to ensure reliable data ingestion, dashboards, and alerts.

Qualifications

• Must have active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Onsite at the National Maritime Intelligence Center at 4251 Suitland Road, Suitland, MD 20746.
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience with Splunk administration, implementation, and data analysis, preferably in a medium-to-large enterprise environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and manage Splunk environments across on-premise and cloud infrastructures.
• Perform upgrades, patches, and maintenance to ensure optimal system performance and security.
• Monitor Splunk system health and troubleshoot issues related to performance, configuration, and connectivity.
• Work closely with application owners, network engineers, and other stakeholders to identify relevant data sources.
• Develop and maintain data onboarding processes, including parsing, indexing, and normalization of logs and metrics from diverse systems.
• Write and optimize regular expressions, data transforms, and event types to ensure accurate data ingestion.
• Create complex Splunk queries using Search Processing Language (SPL) to perform analysis and extract meaningful insights.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and alerts tailored to operational, security, and business requirements.

Skills

Splunk administration

Data analysis

Regex writing

Dashboard development

SPL queries

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Splunk

Job description

CDW is seeking a senior Splunk engineer to design, implement, and optimize Splunk environments across on-prem and cloud, delivering data-driven insights for ops and security.

You will work onsite at the National Maritime Intelligence Center in Suitland, MD, bringing 8+ years of Splunk experience and collaborating with application owners and network engineers to ensure reliable data ingestion, dashboards, and alerts.