Splunk Cyber Security Engineer 4

Immediate Opening
Title: Splunk Cyber Security Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA US (Hybrid)
Interview process: Either Phone or In Person
Job Type: Contract
Job Duration: Approx. 06+ months (Possible longer extensions)
Client: Public Sector Direct Client
Tax Term: W2 or Corp to Corp

Job Description:
Splunk Cyber Security Engineer will be responsible for engineering data ingestion into **** Splunk instance is configured and maintained properly. This includes but is not limited to onboarding new data ingestion sources, modifying, and adjusting current sources and maintaining the backend of Splunk throughout the **** Operations Technology Network.

Responsibilities:

• Splunk Backend Management

• Management of Indexes
• Onboarding new Indexes as needed
• Onboarding Log Sources
• Maintaining Current Log Sources
• Installing/Update Apps and Addons in Splunk
• Researching Splunk Add-ons
• Splunk Change Management and Maintenance

• Network Knowledge (Understanding of how data flows throughout the network)
• Linux Syslog Maintenance

• Log Rotation
• Maintenance of Syslog Services

• Red Hat Linux Administration

• Linux Updates
• Security Patching
• Splunk Deployments
• On Call for Splunk related outages