Splunk Engineer
at The Business Agility Group
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 19 May, 2024 | Not Specified | 22 Feb, 2024 | 5 year(s) or above | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
ABOUT THE JOB SPLUNK ENGINEER
We have an opportunity with a Government Department, their Cyber Security team within the Digital Strategy & Cyber Security branch is seeking to engage a Splunk Engineer to lead the engineering, administration and tuning of a highly complex Splunk environment.
The Splunk Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the overall Splunk architecture and the effectiveness and efficiency of the SIEM. This includes proficiency in managing search heads, indexers, deployment servers and heavy forwarders. To assist the mission of the SOC, a strong understanding of Enterprise Security and SOAR is required. The Splunk Engineer will work closely with other members of the SOC and Cyber security team.
The Splunk engineer should also demonstrate advanced knowledge of Splunk Cloud and the configuration of federated search. The Splunk engineer will engage with end users, external teams and vendors to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues, and provide support for the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards. The Splunk engineer will require good understanding of ITIL and change processes.
This is a 12-month contract role, with the possibility of a further 12 months extension, based in Canberra, ACT. However, remote working may be suitable to support the requirements of this role. The Department also supports flexible working from home arrangements on a case-by-case basis subject to the business needs of the supervising manager and business unit. Please indicate clearly in your response you are desired work location if outside ACT/Canberra.
Responsibilities:
- Manage Splunk Cloud environment application updates, dashboarding, integrations and health checks
- Onboard new data/log sources
- Run queries and searches to inform SOC requests
- Perform data quality and data model assessments on a periodic basis
- Maintain Heavy Forwarding logging infrastructure
- Maintain existing on premise Splunk enterprise and SOAR - including patching, application updates integrations and health checks
- Assist in playbook and automation maintenance
- Assist in Use Case development
- Investigate technologies to assist with vulnerability analysis and remediation efforts
- Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends in the cybersecurity industry
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:5.0Max:10.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Network Administration / Security
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
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Canberra ACT, Australia