Leidos is seeking a Splunk Developer to join a large IC DoD customer contract. Leidos is building a new team to transform our customer spaces. We are looking for a concerted and forward leaning individual who wants to tackle challenges and be a part of creating innovative solutions. In return, Leidos will invest in you with a new enhanced leave plan, generous 401k, and training to name just a few great benefits. Ready to tackle your next challenge - then we want you on our team. In this role, your responsibility will be to manage the data sources ingested by the system and work with stakeholders to devise effective ways of displaying information useful to the user.
Why Leidos?
- Leidos Life promotes excellent work-life balance. You can make an impact and have time for your well-being.
- Leidos offers many opportunities for career development and advancement.
- Learn more about the benefits we offer: https://www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.
Primary Tasks:
- Gather stakeholder requirements for Splunk dashboard reporting capabilities, including the data sources required to compute the dashboard
- Uses centralized and peripheral databases, content management, records management systems and shapes workflow and processes.
- Manages data sources used by the stakeholders.
- Develops data correlation use cases and helps design dashboards for use by stakeholders.
- Compiles reports on performance and usage metrics and future requirements for existing Splunk Reporting capabilities including, but not limited to, search, discovery, storage and retrieval of data and formal production and taskings.
- Coordinate access to additional data source by working with data owners.
- Manages data onboarding and defining configurations
- Performs data interpretation, classification, and enrichment
- Builds data models
- Manages knowledge objects (fields, extractions, tags, event types, lookups, workflow actions, aliases, macros, and so on)
- Experience with basic Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
- Strong understanding of Splunk platform configuration, web UI and Common Information Model
- Basic understanding of regular expressions
Successful candidates must possess the following skills:
- Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
- Demonstrates ability to use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
- Demonstrates ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials.
- Demonstrates understanding of evaluation collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers and developing collection requirement.
- Extensive experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
- Extensive experience with service tree development, KPI creation and threshold tuning, and dashboard development (ad hoc, glass tables etc.)
- Experience with customizing Splunk Universal Forwarder configurations to add, remove, and tune ingest for various OS types (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Unix etc.)
- Experience with Splunk Heavy Forwarder configurations
- Familiarity with IT Service Management (ITSM) ticketing platforms, such as ServiceNow or Remedy, for tracking incidents and submitting change requests
- Familiarity with CRIBL for data ingest reductions
Education
- Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Masters degree with 6 years. Education equivalency of Associate’s with 10 years of related experience or High School Diploma with 12 years of related experience can be used in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
Clearance
- Due to the nature of the government contracts we support, US Citizenship is required.
- TS/SCI with specific polygraph required or TS/SCI and willing to obtain and maintain a specific polygraph.
Certifications:
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoDM 8140.03 (previously DoD 8570) – IT System Admin Intermediate certification requirements (Cloud+, GICSP, SSCP, Security+ CE, GSEC, or higher)
- Splunk Power User or higher
Original Posting:January 22, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
What We Do
We Are Leidos
For 50 years we have been tackling some of the biggest problems that face our nation and our world.
OUR MISSION
Through our culture of innovation and history of performance, we develop deep customer trust built on integrity and create enduring solutions that improve our world. Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The company’s 43,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the newly launched Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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