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ID #20109266
State New York
City New york city
Job type Contract
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source QED National
Showed 2021-09-23
Date 2021-09-23
Deadline 2021-11-21
Category Et cetera
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Network Security Analyst - Splunk

New York, New york city, 10008 New york city USA

Vacancy expired!

A NYS agency located in New York, NY is looking for a Network Security Analyst - Splunk for a 12 month contract.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POSITION MAY INITIALLY ALLOW FOR WORK TO BE PERFORMED REMOTELY. HOWEVER, CONSULTANT WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK ON-SITE/IN-OFFICE ONCE COVID RESTRICTIONS ARE LIFTED. QUALIFIED CANDIDATES SHOULD BE MADE AWARE BEFORE APPLYING.

Requirements and skills

  • Experience administering Access Controls to Splunk (Role based Privileges & Capabilities) using LDAP & Radius Authentication
  • Work closely with Linux and Windows server administration teams to diagnose and resolve configuration issues
  • Be well versed in Splunk technology, implementation of best practices and have a working knowledge in the variety of architectural variations of the Splunk product.
  • Experience with Splunk deployment in the cloud AWS, Azure & Oracle Cloud
  • Hands on experience with Enterprise Applications
  • Hands on experience with Security Tools such as IDS/IPS, AV, Endpoint management
  • Hands on experience with Virtualization Technology such as VMWare
  • Scripting/Programming experience with Python, Perl, PowerShell or Bash
  • Security Information Event Management (SIEM)
  • Experience working in a large corporate enterprise environment
  • 5+ years of experience with deep technical expertise and strong leadership supporting enterprise level SIEM technology and logging frameworks
  • 2+ years of experience deploying and operating Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
  • Formal education and advanced degree in Information Security, Cyber-security, Computer Science or similar and/or commensurate demonstrated work experience in the same
  • Ability to develop, document and maintain security policies, processes, procedures, and standards.
  • Determining security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues; preparing cost estimates.
  • Knowledge of and experience in developing and documenting security architecture and plans, including strategic, tactical and project plans.
  • Excellent technical knowledge of mainstream operating systems and a wide range of security technologies, such as network security appliances, identity and access management systems, anti-malware solutions, automated policy compliance tools and desktop security tools
  • Splunk Administrator/ Developer skillset
  • Extensive experience in deploying, configuring, upgrading and administering Splunk clusters at an enterprise level.
  • 6+ years' experience: MS Windows NT/2000
  • 2-4 years' experience: Linux, Red Hat Linux, Unix Shell Scripting, Win Server 2016/2019/2012/2008/2003, Windows 10, Windows 7, Python Scripting, Regular Expressions (Regex)
  • 1-2 years' experience: Structured Query Language (SQL)

Responsibilities

  • Configure and maintain heterogeneous Splunk environments and in-depth knowledge of log analysis generated by various systems including security products such as LDAP Directories, Application Servers, Web servers and HTTP methodologies.
  • Architecture various components within Splunk (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, Parsing, Indexing, Searching concepts, Hot, Warm, Cold, Frozen bucketing, License model.
  • Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards, alerts, and reports.
  • Develop custom app configurations (deployment-apps) within SPLUNK in order to parse, index multiple types of log format across all application environments
  • Deployment of Splunk family of software to support log retention, aggregation and analysis requirements, including: Splunk scalability, capacity planning, distributed setup, Search Head Clustering, Index Clustering and performance specifications
  • Perform installation, configuration management, capacity planning, license management, data integration, data transformation, field extraction, event parsing, data preview, and application management of Splunk
  • Integration & Onboarding Database logs with DB Connect Application and developing complex SQL Queries for that purpose.
  • Design and customize complex search queries and promote advance searching, forensics, and analytics
  • Develop dashboards, data models, reports and optimize performance
  • Develop, implement and document configuration standards, policies, and procedures for operating, managing and ensuring the security of the Splunk infrastructure
  • Participate in incident, problem, and change management process related to Splunk

About us: QED National is a leading IT consulting, solutions and staff augmentation firm, serving both the public and private sectors for over 28 years. Headquartered in midtown Manhattan, QED National's team is comprised of the brightest minds in the industry with the skills to solve the most complex technological problems.

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