REMOTE; SPLUNK ADMIN ; 6 month contract-to-hire; HUB Locations

Candidate must be eligible for Public Trust Clearance and has worked in USA for three years within past 5 years.

Interview Process (How long will it take sub to fill): 1) First interview 30- 45 minutes with Hiring Manager and Product Manager. 2) Second interview with Hiring Manager and Team. Decision approximately 1 week.

The candidates must reside/work from 50 miles of an NGS or an Elevance Health office. NGS offices in the following locations:

ob Title: SPLUNK ADMIN

Location: Remote - Must Resides within 50 Miles of Hub Locations

Work Schedule: Remote During Contract - Hybrid when converted to FTE at least 1 day/week

Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire

No sponsorship available, Not eligible for Visa sponsorship consultants

I am also including the Job Description below:

Must have 5-7+ Years of Industry experience.

DevSecOps certification or similar nice to have. Experience is key and important.

Prior experience with CMS (Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services) requirements is a BIG PLUS.

Must have 3+ years of experience with Fed'l Govt Agency Security Contracting.

Must have 3+ years of experience with Splunk Cloud Administration

Must have 3+ years of Splunk Dashboard content creation & maintenance experience.

Must have 3+ years of experience working with Splunk on-premises and Cloud infrastructure.

Details:

• Responsible for support, installation, and maintenance of Enterprise Splunk environment, using standard procedures and processes to gather, format and load metadata under minimum supervision.
• Primary duties may include, but are not limited to: Designs, constructs and proposes difficult to very difficult Splunk repository, infrastructure, or architectural changes, creates and maintains associated architectural specification documentation and procedures.
• Troubleshoots medium to difficult metadata/Splunk repository and functionality problems with help from others. Conducts implementation, upgrade and maintenance of Splunk associated infrastructure and supporting data management.
• Designs and constructs most difficult Splunk dashboards and reports and conducts quality reviews, with minimal guidance and supervision. Performs Splunk system administration duties with little supervision. Performs data profiling analysis and data quality analysis with guidance and supervision. Communicates with and mentors junior associates.

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5-7 years of experience in information systems with minimum 3 years of experience in a Splunk administrator role.
• Experience with syslog, syslog-ng logging as they relate to Splunk required;
• Prior experience with Splunk SOAR or similar tools and technologies are preferred. Experience working with Splunk on-premise and Cloud infrastructure required.
• Experience in Agile frameworks and DevSecOps processes required.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g. Kubernetes) and commercial/government cloud technologies (AWS/Azure) desired;
• Python scripting skills and experience is highly valued.
• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), and familiarity with common security implementation frameworks (NIST, ISO, HIPAA, etc.) in a highly regulated industry are preferred
• Previous federal contracting system security officer experience is needed.
• Agile or SAFe methodology experience nice to have.

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