Senior Splunk Analyst

Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Splunk Analyst to provide support to the FLETC Enterprise IT Support Services contract located at FLETC Headquarters in Glynco, GA.

• Responsible for analyzing the most complex threats
• Act as an escalation point for other security analysts
• Manage Splunk implementations for managed security services customers
• Use case creation, dashboards, tuning, and log source configuration
• Provide advanced security event detection and threat analysis for complex and/or escalated security events
• Provide log/network/malware/device analysis and make recommendations for remediation of security vulnerability conditions
• Validate log sources and indexed data, search through indexed data to optimize search criteria
• Add Customer Context, eliminate noise and false positives, and develop trends and data models
• Distill Customer intelligence feeds; use cases, trends and data models
• Create custom alert schema, reports and custom dashboards

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience working with Splunk

• U.S. Citizenship is required per contract.

• Minimum of three years of experience working with Windows, Linux OS, Log file formats and logging of various nodes

• In-depth knowledge of Splunk ingestion patterns

• Familiarity with various log formats and SPLUNK Common Information Models

• Ability to query Splunk in an effort to verify log being sent and received

• Ability to add Splunk applications and add-ons from Splunk website

Desired:

• FLETC experience or experience in another DHS agency

• Active security clearance

About Us: 

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2024.

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.