Principal Systems Engineer #208

Other Duties/ Responsibilities

• Participate in on-site and on-call rotation.  

Required Work Experience

• Eight to ten years of relevant work experience (GED), six to eight years (Associates), four to eight years (Bachelor’s), two to four years (Master’s).

Required Special Skills/ Knowledge

• Provides long-range strategic planning activities for the Senate in the areas of information technology or telecommunications hardware, software, storage solutions, and networking systems; monitors the impact of technological developments; identifies emerging technologies.
• Provides expert-level technical support on Senate hardware, software, storage solutions, and network systems to vendors, other technical staff, and other divisions and departments; resolves critical and complex systems, applications, storage or communications performance problems.
• Serves as project manager on assigned projects; plans, assigns, directs and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables and staff assignments.
• Customizes, tests, recommends and configures operating and network systems and software platforms; monitors, evaluates and resolves hardware/software configuration system performance problems; recommends third party software on other operating systems.

As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. 

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Splunk in distributed deployments.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security or integration with other Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms.
• Proficient at data onboarding activities, including routing, parsing, and normalizing events to the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM).
• Proficiency in onboarding data using Splunk-developed add-ons for Windows, Linux, and common third-party devices and applications.
• Proficiency in onboarding data into Splunk via forwarder, scripted inputs, TCP/UDP, and modular inputs from various sources.
• Proficiency in managing Splunk using the Splunk command-line interface.
• Proficiency in managing Splunk using configuration files.
• Experience collaborating with separate engineering teams to configure data sources for Splunk integration.
• Proficiency in implementing and onboarding data in Splunk DB Connect.
• Experience with Splunk performing systems administration, including performing installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• General networking and security troubleshooting (firewalls, routing, NAT, etc.).
• Splunk implementation and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience managing, maintaining, and administering multi-site indexer clusters and search head clustering.
• Proficiency in developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies per Splunk best practices.
• Experience with performing integration activities to configure, connect, and pull data with 3rd party software APIs.
• Scripting and development skills (Ansible, Bash, Python, and PowerShell).

Desired Certifications 

• Splunk Administrator.
• Splunk Certified Architect.
• Certified Storage Associate.
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator or greater (RHCE).
• At least one of the following certifications: CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, CCNP, CCNP Security, CCIE Security, CEH, ECSP, MCSE, RHCA, RHCSA, RHCE, VCP, VCAP, VCIX, and VCDX.

Working Conditions

• No exceptional physical demands.

Security Clearance

• This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.