Open Systems Technologies Corporation is a leader in the government contracting marketplace, providing Enterprise Security and Cloud Computing solutions to support large organizations. Our capabilities include supplying federal government entities and private businesses with software development, scientific and engineering technical assistance, systems integration, and enterprise security. Since its founding in 1996, OST has been committed to delivering high-quality, best-in-class results that bring added value to our clients while investing in our employees’ futures by providing exciting projects to work on, and robust benefits to include technical training and certifications, relocation assistance and a 401K match with immediate vesting.

Open Systems Technologies Corporation is currently seeking an Splunk Engineer/Admin to support a nationally significant and fast-paced program.

Responsibilities:

The selected candidate will be responsible for configuring the collection, parsing, correlation, and visualization of events for a critical operational system. She/he will demonstrate strong skills in system administration, log management, event correlation, and threat detection, and will support building and maintaining a system that analyzes collected data and derives facts, inferences, and projections to determine if the systems being monitored are operating normally. The individual will work on a team responsible for configuring the systems which support analysts and end-users. She/he will support the collection and extraction of data used to refine existing and new reports, analytics, and dashboards, and will be involved with the drafting and creation of reports and dashboards based on end-user requirements. The selected candidate will also support the integration of resources across teams to better define the audit data being collected to eliminate false positives and false negatives from the data.

• If not located in Maryland, must be available to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Splunk Certified Admin strongly preferred. If not Certified, must have extensive, in-depth experience in the engineering and administration of SPLUNK.

Basic/Required Qualifications

· At least 2 years of experience with one or more of the following: StealthWatch, TripWire, Zenoss, ArcSight, Splunk.

· Splunk Certified Admin strongly preferred. If not Certified, must have extensive, in-depth experience in the engineering and administration of SPLUNK.

· Experience in design, implementation, and support of Splunk core components, including: indexers, forwarders, search heads, and cluster managers.

· Experience with configuration and administration of Splunk ingestion and forwarding for new and existing applications and data.

· Experience with troubleshooting Splunk dataflow issues between the various Splunk core components.

· Experience configuring and deploying data collection for a variety of operating systems and networking platforms.

· Experience creating Dashboards and Analytics within SIEM tools.

· Experience working with monitoring systems supporting auditing, incident response, and system health.

· Must have a solid understanding of networking components and devices, ports, protocols, and basic networking troubleshooting steps.

· Must have the ability to troubleshoot issues with log feeds, search time, and field extractions.

· Must have the ability to troubleshoot problems related to data solutions.

· If not located in Maryland, must be available to travel up to 25% of the time.?

Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Assurance, or a related discipline.

· Network Security Operations Center (SOC) experience.

· Experience and talent in data visualization.

· Extensive experience creating workflows for Incident Response within a SIEM Tool.

· Security+ Certification.

· GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification.

· GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification.

· Cybersecurity certifications.

· Formal SIEM training.

· Experience working on an Agile team/program.

OST is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has been operating since 1996 providing support on various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Federal Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end-of-year profit sharing.