Splunk Systems Engineering, Senior Advisor

Peraton is looking for a fully cleared System Engineer & Splunk Administrator to support a high-impact cyber mission location out of Annapolis Junction, MD. You’ll maintain and modernize Splunk infrastructure, enhance security, and optimize system performance.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain & Upgrade Splunk infrastructure, ensuring peak performance.
• Support Splunk Enterprise Security and troubleshoot logs in a dynamic enterprise environment.
• Build & Modernize a next-gen Splunk instance, improving system capabilities.
• Design & Optimize architectures, dashboards, and data modeling solutions.
• Develop SOA Solutions & ensure interoperability with DoD standards.
• Mitigate Risk using modeling, simulations, and alternative system designs.
• Lead & Innovate in system trade analyses, integration strategies, and life-cycle planning.

This position supports a prime program that is set to revolutionize the enterprise with cutting-edge capabilities! From seamless data management and high-speed data delivery to powerful cloud architectures built for massive ingest rates and next-level analytic platforms—this is your chance to be part of something game-changing.

Desired Experience and Skillset needed for this role:

• Experience with large-scale multimedia & multilingual content processing systems.

• Expertise in distributed peer-to-peer storage with 500+ nodes.

• Proficiency in metadata indexing, summarization, and analytics.

• Strong background in system performance, scalability, and security.

• Skilled in technical documentation and training.

• Experience leading agile/spiral development models.

• Integration of COTS and GOTS products from multiple vendors.

• Knowledge of distributed storage routing & querying algorithms.

• Implementation of storage area networks, data warehouses, and data marts.

• Optimization of global storage, retrieval, backup, and retention strategies.

• Experience with clustered or cloud storage deployments.

• Strong cross-team collaboration and user interaction skills.

• Expertise in secure, compliant solution planning.

• Knowledge of HDFS, Hadoop, HBase/Accumulo, and Big Table internals.

Join Peraton and play a key role in securing mission-critical systems with cutting-edge solutions. Are you ready to make an impact?

Position Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required.
• Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Five (5) years of additional SE experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree)

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on our critical National Security programs, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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