Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA.  Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community.  We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013.  We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT
The Sponsor’s monitoring team uses Splunk to collect detailed system audit and performance logs necessary for system accreditation, troubleshooting, and security reporting. The Sponsor is responsible for collection of these data and working with system owners and users to get the most out of the data collection. The Sponsor needs proficiency in creating dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications. Work will include collecting and reporting of hosted systems.

THE ROLE

• The Contractor shall maintain clustered Splunk infrastructure, including search head and index cluster, deployment server, deployer, license manager, heavy and universal forwarders, Distributed Management Console (DMC)
• The Contractor shall onboard new data sources, monitor the health of existing data feeds.
• The Contractor shall deploy and manage Splunk apps, including writing custom apps where needed.
• The Contractor shall design and implement data flow and accesses across different networks and system interfaces, for example between Splunk and AWS, or between Splunk and network devices.
• The Contractor shall perform routine maintenance tasks such as adding or deleting indexes, sizing volumes, adding data inputs, patching the OS and upgrading Spunk, automation of routine tasks.
• The Contractor shall troubleshoot data flow interruptions, data quality issues, performance issues.
• The Contractor shall collaborate with other functional teams such as network, storage, security to provide Splunk service where needed across entire customer network
• The Contractor shall document architecture, how-to guides, troubleshooting documents.
• The Contractor shall create dashboards to assist stakeholders with troubleshooting, managing data feeds status, and managing audit logs from applications.
• The Contractor shall collect information for reporting on hosted systems.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with Splunk and Linux.
• Demonstrated experience understanding Splunk distributed architecture and data pipelines, with hands-on implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk client management and apps management.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating Splunk with various data sources such as syslog, flat files, databases, APIs, cloud platform logs, HEC endpoints.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk SPL to create searches, reports, alerts, and dashboards.
• Demonstrated experience with Splunk conf files to manage inputs, props, transforms, and similar.
• Demonstrated experience with fluency with Linux OS (RHEL or Rocky 8) and Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Demonstrated experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python.
• Demonstrated experience with powershell for task automation.
• Demonstrated experience with custom apps development.
• Demonstrated experience with Regular Expression.
• Demonstrated experience with AWS SDK and CLI to programmatically interface with AWS.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you. 

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

• very strong salaries;
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
• the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
• 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
• a generously-funded HSA;
• an 8% 401(k) contribution; 
• 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
• the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
• a generous training budget;
• $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
• business development / growth incentives; and
• top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.