Position Title: Splunk Content Developer
Position Type: Contract
Position Location: Downtown D.C.
Responsibilities:
- Proven Splunk experience in architecture, engineering, or operational role with an emphasis on content development
- Current Splunk Admin or Architect certification preferred
- Proficiency with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) sufficient to write and troubleshoot complex search logic
- Ability to translate business and mission requirements into actionable content deliverables and strategy
- Ability to develop, implement, and optimize dashboards, reports, alerts, and other knowledge objects according to customer requirements
- Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts in simple language to customer and peers
- Thorough understanding of data onboarding, field extractions, and custom parsing/configuration via props and transforms
- Strong understanding of Splunk components, architecture, data flows, and operation
- 5+ years of professional IT experience in security, systems, application, or network domain
- Experience with system logging, APIs, and related monitoring and management concepts
- Familiarity with or exposure to agile development methodologies
- Ability to manage multiple requirements and customer expectations
- Excellent written and oral skills
- Strong work ethic, integrity, and customer-first mentality
- Ability to work self-guided and as part of a team
Skills:
- Front-end development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Server-side scripting experience (Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.)
- Splunk Developer certification preferred
- Experience developing Splunk apps and add-ons
- Understanding of Linux and familiarity with command line interface
- Splunk IT Service Intelligence certification or experience
- Enterprise Security (ES) certification or experience
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Working knowledge of git and related concepts
- Proven technical leader with a strong team focus
***Must be a US Citizen eligible for a Public Trust to be considered***