{"id":727478,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ashburnconsulting-splunk-engineer","title":"Splunk Engineer","company":{"id":669541,"name":"Ashburn Consulting","domain":"ashburnconsulting.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ashburnconsulting","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"services","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Camp Springs, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":195000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":195000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"LDAP","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SIEM","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Windows","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-28T20:44:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-28","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T05:13:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":121,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":121},"description":"Ashburn Consulting, LLC, based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, specializes in providing network and network security solutions in complex environments to a select set of government and business clients. The company, an established leader in its field, is composed of an elite team of engineers and business consultants, each of whom is recognized, and highly regarded, within the network and security communities.\n Ashburn is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to support a federal cybersecurity architecture opportunity. This Key Personnel role will support enterprise SIEM operations, Splunk architecture, data ingestion, dashboards, alerting, analytics, secure configuration, and performance optimization in a complex Government environment for a proposal opportunity.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nArchitect, deploy, operate, and maintain enterprise Splunk infrastructure.\nSupport SIEM data ingestion, indexing, normalization, dashboarding, alerting, and operational reporting.\nDevelop dashboards and visualizations for security, operations, and mission stakeholders.\nManage Splunk configurations, search/index clusters, data models, alerts, reports, saved searches, and knowledge objects.\nSupport account/access management, server management, monitoring, patching, Splunk version upgrades, and app/add-on maintenance.\nImprove log source coverage and quality across enterprise systems and applications.\nUse scripting and automation to improve SIEM operations and support security analytics.\nSupport federal cybersecurity standards, secure configuration, and audit-ready documentation.\n Required Qualifications\nCandidates must be U.S. citizens.\nCandidates must be willing and able to work as Ashburn W-2 employees. 1099 and corp-to-corp arrangements are not permitted for these roles.\nDHS EOD / suitability is required.\n10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Splunk architecture across diverse Government or similarly complex enterprise environments.\nExperience supporting Splunk across Windows, Linux, Solaris, and macOS environments.\nHands-on expertise with core Splunk components: Indexer, Search Head, Deployer, Deployment Server, License Master, Heavy Forwarder, Universal Forwarder.\nExperience with Splunk authentication methods such as LDAP and SAML.\nExperience managing Splunk indexer and search clusters.\nExperience configuring Splunk through configuration files and implementing policies, procedures, and standards for secure and efficient Splunk operations.\nAdvanced ability to use Splunk to extract, transform, analyze, and visualize data for actionable security and operational insights.\nExperience developing advanced Splunk queries, dashboards, reports, alerts, and data models.\nExperience conducting application performance and capacity analysis.\nAdvanced scripting experience using Shell, Python, JavaScript, XML, CSS, or equivalent tools.\nExperience configuring data collection applications such as Splunk DB Connect and the Splunk App for AWS.\nExperience deploying or supporting Splunk Cloud services on AWS.\nPreferred / Strongly Desired Qualifications\nPrior DHS, DOD / DOW, or federal civilian cybersecurity program experience.\nExperience supporting large, multi-datacenter Splunk clusters.\nExperience improving log coverage, log quality, data source onboarding, dashboards, anomaly detection, and security analytics.\nSplunk certifications strongly preferred.\nExperience working in DevSecOps, cybersecurity operations, or enterprise security architecture environments.\n PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:\nWork is equally performed in the field as well as in a normal office environment. Lifting (up to 50lbs) may be required. Ladder climbing may be required. Driving is required. All duties performed with or without reasonable accommodations.\nAdditional Information\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status\nAshburn Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.\nIn compliance with the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request and accommodation in order to apply for a position with Ashburn Consulting, please e-mail .”\nAshburn Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer.\nIn compliance with the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request and accommodation in order to apply for a position with Ashburn Consulting, please e-mail .”","description_format":"text","description_chars":4713,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Security Operations","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T08:51:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.461,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":120,"expected_fill_days":49,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":195000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ashburnconsulting-splunk-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ashburnconsulting-splunk-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T00:17:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":200,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4800,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}