Description:
Looking for an experienced Splunk Analyst/Power User to assist with the creation of custom searches, dashboards, and visualizations for a large organization that ingests terabytes of logs daily.
This is a full-time 1099 or C2C (Corp-to-Corp) opportunity, expected level of effort is 1880 hours per year, on a new 5-year contract starting in July 2024.
Position is fully-remote but only open to US Citizens. A background check is required by the client. While working, candidate needs to be physically inside the United States per client security requirements.
Candidates should have 5 years of I.T. experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 7 total years I.T. experience in lieu of the degree. Splunk and/or cybersecurity certifications are a plus.
Responsibilities:
● Support the customer’s overall cyber threat analysis efforts.
● Liaison between Splunk Engineering team and SOC operations teams to configure Splunk Data Lake for optimum SOC functionality.
● Provide configurable executive-level dashboards summarizing cyber status or risk level per Splunk based on criteria published by FISMA and other Government organizations.
● Support production of metrics and trendlines per threat activity and provide in-product security research on existing and emerging threats.
● Support use of machine learning for event correlation and proactive cyber response capability.
● Support and deploy algorithms to be used in data science focusing on cybersecurity analysis.
● Integrate and comply with standards for automation via open Application Programming Interfaces (API).
● Apply data science principles for data analysis and visualization.
● Research, analyze, and write documents such as use case requirements, system change documents, or process documents/workflows.
● Ensure documentation is accurate complete, meets editorial and government specifications, and adheres to standards for quality, graphics, coverage, format, and style.
● Ensure that content, including presentations, bulletins, white papers, memos, policies, briefings, and other products, are developed appropriately for the intended audience.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $80.00 - $100.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Compensation package:
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Are you open to 1099 or C2C work?
Experience:
- Splunk: 2 years (Required)
- IT: 5 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote