Data Scientist

20241111-2341-01

Active Top Secret Clearance with Poly Required

 (salary is commensurate with education and experience)

Job Summary

The monitoring team uses Splunk to collect detailed system audit and performance logs necessary for system accreditation, troubleshooting, and security reporting. The Sponsor is responsible for collection of these data and working with system owners and users to get the most out of the data collection. The Sponsor needs proficiency in creating dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications. Work will include collecting and reporting of hosted systems.

Please Note:

This job requires an existing Top Secret Clearance and Polygraph.

Responsibilities and Duties

•  Maintain clustered Splunk infrastructure, including search head and index cluster, deployment server, deployer, license manager, heavy and universal forwarders, Distributed Management Console (DMC)
• Onboard new data sources, monitor the health of existing data feeds.
• Deploy and manage Splunk apps, including writing custom apps where needed.
• Design and implement data flow and accesses across different networks and system interfaces, for example between Splunk and AWS, or between Splunk and network devices.
• Perform routine maintenance tasks such as adding or deleting indexes, sizing volumes, adding data inputs, patching the OS and upgrading Spunk, automation of routine tasks.
• Troubleshoot data flow interruptions, data quality issues, performance issues.
• Collaborate with other functional teams such as network, storage, security to provide Splunk service where needed across entire customer network
• Document architecture, how-to guides, troubleshooting documents.
• Create dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications. 
• Collect information for reporting on hosted systems.

Experience Needed:

• Citizenship: Must Be a US Citizen
• Existing Clearance Required: Active Top Secret SCI with Poly
• Demonstrated experience working with Splunk and Linux.
• Demonstrated experience understanding Splunk distributed architecture and data pipelines, with hands-on implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk client management and apps management.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating Splunk with various data sources such as syslog, flat files, databases, APIs, cloud platform logs, HEC endpoints.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk SPL to create searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk conf files to manage inputs, props, transforms, and similar.
• Demonstrated experience with fluency with Linux OS (RHEL or Rocky 8) and Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Demonstrated experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• Demonstrated experience with powershell for task automation.
• Demonstrated experience with custom apps development.
• Demonstrated experience with Regular Expression.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS SDK and CLI to programmatically interface with AWS.

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Paid Time Off, Holidays, Social Events, Employee Assistance Program, Team Building Activities, 401K, Tuition Assistance, and more.

Contact Us: Main Number: 1-888-663-2690 | info@Dezign-Concepts.com | www.dezign-concepts.com

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