The Splunk Software Engineer duties may include but are not limited to:

• Act as the Splunk SME providing input into strategies, capabilities, and integrations to improve the availability and performance of applications.
• Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc.
• Design Splunk systems to meet growth while maintaining a balance between performance, stability, and agility.
• Design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.
• Design or implement complex algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints; Perform quality control on team products.
• Design and size Splunk architectures.

**This role requires 100% on-site support M-F**

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a full scope polygraph is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline with eight (8) years of software engineering (SWE) experience; master’s degree with six (6) years of experience; PhD with three (3) years of experience. 14 years of SWE experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.

Must have one of the following Splunk certifications:

• Splunk Certified User
• Splunk Certified Power User
• Splunk Certified Admin
• Splunk Accredited Core Implementation
• Splunk Accredited Consultant
• Ability to design and develop software solutions by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users or system engineers.
• Demonstrated experience developing software system installation, build procedures, and scripts.
• Ability to analyze and resolve system performance issues (e.g. response time or timing problems, interface/integration problems, system bottlenecks, data flow issues).
• Ability to build a new Splunk instance to replace an existing system’s capabilities.

Desired (but not required): 

• Security certifications: SANS, CISSP, etc.
• Background of creating and managing app and its components.
• Proficiency with Splunk component utilization (e.g. Indexer loads and requirements, search head peering, etc), component resourcing, inter-component communications and tradeoffs and underlying platform requirements.
• Knowledge of two of the following programming languages: Perl, Python, SQL, Shell.
• Experience providing architecture-level design to support and operate Splunk using security information and event management (SIEM) or security event management (SEM) best practices and Splunk enterprise security.