Splunk Engineer

About S2:

S2 eliminates risks of separate red- and blue-teams by creating continuously optimized cybersecurity for the modern, constant-threat landscape. Our centralized adversary simulation, detection and response platform, Mage, uses advanced tradecraft to provide continuous red team-as-a-service. With Mage, we find weaknesses before adversaries do, so that every threat is an opportunity for improvement. Deployed as-a-service, S2 makes advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations. With smart automation and continuous testing, we help you focus on the most imminent and most critical risks to your enterprise.

S2 is a Small Business that is focused solely on cybersecurity and specializes in Adversary Simulation, Protection and Prevention services. We were founded by cybersecurity experts trained by the National Security Agency (NSA) who were joined by senior cybersecurity entrepreneurs with proven expertise within the Federal Government. We are a growing community of cyber professionals seeking like-minded individuals who are passionate about cybersecurity, seek innovation in our everyday work, hold ourselves and those around us accountable, and have a will to win.

S2. Relentlessly secure.

Stage 2 Security (S2) is looking for certificated Splunk Engineers with security minded savviness to help design, maintain, and improve large Splunk deployments. The selected candidate will leverage strong written and verbal communications skills to help customers better understand how their information is protected from threats within cyberspace.

Responsibilities:

• Evolving the client's data within Splunk into a superior state via field extractions, data transformations, event parsing, data previewing, etc.
• Improving the client's Splunk deployment via curtailing the data, optimizing reporting, and enhancing search capabilities.
• Creating and implementing configuration standards, policies, and/or procedures for improved Splunk operations and management.
• Resolving incidents and/or other issues, while integrating with change management processes.
• Deploying new Splunk installations, refining configuration management capabilities, ensure license management is operating ideally.

Qualifications:

The selected candidate is required to have:

• Splunk Certified Architect.
• Experience with designing, building, and maintaining large scale Splunk solutions.
• Deep understanding of:

• Splunk scalability
• Splunk capacity planning
• Splunk distributed setup
• Splunk search head clustering
• Splunk indexer clustering.
• 5 years of engineering experience with Splunk.
• Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) experience.

• Solid system administration foundation:

• Experience with Linux platforms is required
• Experience with large Windows platforms is a plus.
• Experience with Ansible is a plus.
• Experience with Azure is a plus.

• Some cybersecurity and networking experience.
• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Network Design, Network Engineering, Network Operational Support and cloud engineering experience of Medium to Large enterprise network environments.
• 12 or more years of general IT or cybersecurity experience
• Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred)
• Strong written communication skills.
• Strong verbal communication skills.
• Works well with the team and clients.
• Willingness to learn.
• US Citizenship required, and candidates must be willing to be submitted for a US Government background investigation

No third-party candidates will be considered

The Benefits:

S2 is a small business where people come first, and we know and care about each and every employee. This drives us to provide the best possible benefits and we believe that the benefits we offer are a notch above the rest.

The Benefits at S2 include:

• Medical & dental insurance premiums are 100% paid by S2 for the employee and eligible dependents
• Up to $100 per month reimbursed for mobile phone expenses
• Up to $50 per month reimbursed for home Internet access
• Expenses paid for approved work-related trainings & conferences
• Eligibility to participate in our 401k program after 90 days of employment
• Competitive salary, which is paid semi-weekly (twice per month) 
• Participation in S2 Unlimited PTO Program
• 10 paid government holidays annually
• 10 paid sick days

Stage 2 Security welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.

If you are looking to make an impact, Stage 2 Security is the place for you.