Splunk Specialist — Log Collection and Detection Support for NATO with security clearance

A multinational defence organisation runs its security monitoring on a largedistributed Splunk estate and is looking for the engineer who will own it. This is the seniortechnical voice on log collection and detection tooling for a cyber security data team not aticket-queue role.

What you would be doing

• Acting as the subject matter expert for the monitoring platform and everything that feedsit advising other teams sizing changes and taking the technical lead on related projects.
• Designing deploying and maintaining distributed architectures and keeping the whole estateinstalled configured and behaving.
• Watching every component spotting abnormal behaviour early in system security andapplication logs and taking the technical and the non-technical action needed to clear it.
• Keeping the service inside the performance targets agreed with the customers it protects.
• Integrating external tooling and proposing the improvements that keep the environmentcurrent instead of merely alive.
• Writing up the business case and the implementation plan for change boards then deliveringthe approved change with the other teams involved.
• Producing documentation procedures and design notes plus technical and executive reportingand the occasional briefing to a senior audience.
• Taking a turn on call so that monitoring stays available when something breaks out ofhours.

What you would bring

• Hands-on time administering Splunk in a large enterprise deployment installationconfiguration and maintenance and real experience of distributed designs.
• Expert-level background in log collection and security monitoring management with theanalytical habit of reading logs to diagnose rather than to confirm.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting and comfort with regular expressions.
• Scripting to take the repetition out of the work: Bash Python or Ansible.
• A solid grounding in computer and communication security networking and where modernoperating systems and applications tend to be weak.
• Clear technical writing and the ability to explain a complicated problem to people who donot share your background.
• Nice to have: Enterprise Security SOAR and UBA custom parsers Git cloud log collectionand an industry certification such as CISSP CISM or a GIAC.

Extensions are offered where the work goes well. Applications are reviewed as theyarrive.