Job Description

ApplyLogic is a fast-paced Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small-Business, headquartered in Vienna, VA. Our people are our greatest asset, and our company culture is grounded on that belief. We offer challenging and interesting work in a friendly and supportive environment. Through prime and subcontracts, we deliver best-in-class expertise to solve complex technical problems. 

We're looking for a talented Junior Splunk Analyst to join our team in either one of our locations in Columbia, SC or Washington, DC This position will support a complex government client and will require experience in defining security, utilization, and performance requirements for local and wide area networks. You must be proficient in implementing solutions that align with the Government’s security / monitoring systems and requirements. The JSA shall be proficient in the SPLUNK platform, familiar with Ansible, Python, and PowerShell scripting, Internet Proxy Logs, RSA, Windows Active Directory, Windows Servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers, and capacity planning in Windows/ Linux environments.

Work Location:

Hybrid – A mix of onsite and remote work. Onsite at least 1 day per week 

Clearance: 

Must be US citizen with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret security clearance.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities: 

Responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of the organization's Splunk deployment, to include:

• Perform daily administrative tasks to manage Splunk datasets and storage utilization.  This includes monitoring automated backup tasks, manually backing up data if necessary, monitoring storage utilization on Splunk servers in all environments as well as network attached storage.
• Maintain Splunk Knowledgebase by updating existing and creating new KB articles as identified by the team.
• Create and update Splunk resources including saved searches, visualizations, alerts, dashboards and any other ad hoc deliverables as needed.
• Interface with user community and provide first level of support to troubleshoot issues or assist with any other Splunk requirements.
• Coordinate with, accept tasking from, accept guidance from, and collaborate on priorities with Senior Splunk engineer / Task lead.
• Participate in periodic stand-up task meetings.  Frequency may be daily or multiple times per week based on projects in process.
• Create Splunk reports and dashboards as identified as needed based on enterprise customer requirements or internal team needs.
• Assist in creating, updating, and documenting Ansible playbooks (scripts) used to automate tasks and workflows (groups of tasks) within the Splunk environments.
• Manage Splunk lookups by verifying that automated jobs are updating lookup tables properly as well making adhoc changes as necessary.
• Monitor, administer and maintain accessibility to Splunk components including search heads, indexers, deployers, cluster masters, forwarders and syslog servers for continuous production environment uptime
• Coordinating with various components within the organization to troubleshoot issues
• Manage and secure RHEL and Windows servers for Splunk platform including patches and access controls.
• Assist team with reviewing/assessing/implementing new data sources, ie: syslog, scripted input, db inputs 
• Working with IT Managers to validate data and provide training on new dashboard enhancements
• Assist with maintaining existing PowerShell / Python / C# scripts and creating new scripts as needed 
• Assist with integrating various data sets into Splunk and creating new dashboards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, security and availability of the USAO WAN
• Provide a weekly Progress/Exceptions Report to include a list of tasks assigned, completed, and pending.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

2 years of experience in SPLUNK administrator/engineering in a large complex enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

SPLUNK Certifications

The Perks of Being on Our Team

ApplyLogic offers competitive salaries with a robust Fortune-500 type benefits package. Some of the benefits you will receive when you join us are:

• Employee Assistance Program
• 401K
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Life/Short-Term Disability/Critical Illness/Accident Insurance
• 15 PTO Days 
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Up to $5K towards continuing education and/or professional development