Cyber Systems Engineer, Senior Advisor

Peraton is seeking a Systems Engineer/Splunk Administrator to support a critical mission of consequence within our Cyber Mission Business Unit in Annapolis Junction, MD.  This work is performed at a contractor facility. The candidate's primary responsibility is to maintain and enhance the existing Splunk infrastructure in the enterprise.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support Splunk Enterprise Security
• Apply upgrades and patches as necessary to maintain system
• Troubleshoot logs and effectively communicate with teammates, both government and contractor, in an enterprise environment.
• Manage the administration Splunk deployments, including both operating system and application aspects.
• Analyze and resolve system performance issues (e.g. response time or timing problems, interface/integration problems, system bottlenecks, data flow issues).
• Design a solution by analyzing stakeholder requirements and conferring with users and other system engineers
• Modernize existing Splunk instance to upgrade an existing system's capabilities and make improvements / modernize by performing the following functions:
• Design and size Splunk architectures
• Craft ingest capabilities
• Data modeling
• Dashboard designing

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with current polygraph required
• Twenty (20) years experience as a SE in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity 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
• Demonstrated experience in planning and leading Systems Engineering efforts is required.
• Splunk Experience

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, 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 participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.