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As a Splunk Platform Engineer, you will serve as a member of an integrated team responsible for the design, administration, operation, security, and sustainment of the Splunk Enterprise platform and its supporting Linux-based infrastructure for United States Air Force Test Operations and Sustainment efforts.\nOpen to internal and external candidates. The selected candidate for this requisition may be required to occasionally (e.g. application upgrades) work outside normal business hours.\nJob Summary\nBeyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) is the team selected by the U.S. Air Force to conduct Test and Operations Sustainment at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. AEDC operates more than 55 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units located in six states. Many of the complex's test units have capabilities unmatched elsewhere in the United States; some are unique in the world. AEDC is one of three installations which are part of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC), one of six subordinate commands of the Air Force Materiel Command organization, and an important national resource.\nAEDC’s mission is to conduct developmental test and evaluation for the Nation through modeling, simulation, and ground and flight tests. Execution of the mission requires a large team of highly qualified and dedicated professionals from multiple technical disciplines to effectively accomplish the objectives of our test customers.\nBNH currently has an exciting career opportunity available for a Splunk Platform Engineer to join our team at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.\nJob Duties:\nAdminister and sustain Splunk Enterprise infrastructure, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrading, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management of Splunk components and supporting operating systems.\nPerform Linux system-administration tasks required to support Splunk instances, including account and permission management, file systems, storage, services, process management, certificates, DNS, time synchronization, operating-system patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.\nConfigure, operate, and maintain Splunk Enterprise components, including search heads, indexers, deployment servers, forwarders, license management, cluster-management functions, and supporting applications, as applicable to the environment.\nMonitor the health, availability, performance, storage capacity, indexing throughput, search performance, license consumption, and resource utilization of Splunk infrastructure; identify trends and implement corrective or preventive actions.\nConfigure and manage Splunk data ingestion, including universal and heavy forwarders, inputs, outputs, index routing, parsing, field extraction, sourcetypes, data retention, and index configuration.\nAdminister Splunk users, roles, authentication integrations, role-based access controls, indexes, knowledge objects, dashboards, reports, alerts, saved searches, lookups, and data-model permissions.\nDevelop, maintain, and optimize Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) searches, dashboards, alerts, reports, and other knowledge objects to support operational, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and customer requirements.\nInstall, configure, test, upgrade, and maintain Splunk apps and add-ons; manage app compatibility, dependencies, configuration deployment, and change control.\nImplement and maintain automation for Splunk and supporting infrastructure using scripting and configuration-management tools such as Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, and Git-based workflows.\nApply, validate, document, and remediate applicable Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) requirements for Splunk, Linux operating systems, and supporting infrastructure in accordance with program security and authorization requirements.\nPerform vulnerability remediation, security hardening, log-review support, configuration-baseline management, and audit support for Splunk infrastructure.\nMaintain system diagrams, configuration records, runbooks, standard operating procedures, backup and recovery procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.\nPartner with cybersecurity, network, server, storage, application, and customer teams to troubleshoot data-collection, access-control, performance, and integration issues.\nAbility to communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to technical teams, leadership, and customers.\nParticipate in maintenance windows and provide after-hours support for critical infrastructure incidents when required.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in IT-related field (or 4 years of IT-related experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree) AND 5 years of progressive experience in IT-related field.\nMust be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret level security clearance and access to the AEDC local area network.\nDue to Air Force Security requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for employment at AEDC.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience administering Splunk Enterprise in a DoD environment.\nSplunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, or comparable current Splunk certification.\nExperience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable enterprise Linux operating systems.\nExperience administering distributed Splunk architectures, including indexer clusters, search-head clusters, deployment servers, cluster management, universal forwarders, heavy forwarders, and license management.\nDemonstrated experience creating and optimizing SPL searches, dashboards, reports, alerts, data models, lookups, field extractions, knowledge objects, and role-based access controls.\nExperience onboarding and normalizing data from operating systems, applications, databases, network devices, cybersecurity tools, cloud services, or enterprise infrastructure.\nExperience with Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk SOAR, Common Information Model, or other Splunk premium applications and add-ons.\nExperience configuring authentication and authorization integrations, such as Active Directory, LDAP, SAML, multifactor authentication, certificates, and role-based access controls. Splunk uses roles and capabilities to govern access to platform resources such as indexes, dashboards, and apps.\nExperience with Splunk app and add-on deployment, configuration management, app lifecycle support, and compatibility testing.\nExperience implementing and assessing DISA STIGs, including automated compliance assessment, remediation tracking, exception documentation, and configuration-baseline management.\nExperience with Risk Management Framework activities, ACAS, vulnerability management, security control assessments, and audit remediation.\nExperience with enterprise storage, backup and recovery, virtualization, networking, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and public key infrastructure.\nProficiency with automation and scripting tools, including Ansible, Bash, Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, and Git-based configuration control.\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive salaries\nContinuing education assistance\nMultiple healthcare benefits packages\n401K with employer matching\nPaid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule\nWho We Are\nBeyond New Horizons (BNH) is a fully populated joint venture of Astrion and Fluor Federal Services, Inc. formed to provide unmatched Test Operations and Sustainment services for the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex.\nWe chose our name to serve as an enduring reminder of our commitment to AEDC’s rich aerospace research and development legacy anchored in AEDC’s Towards New Horizons founding study and the unprecedented opportunities to greatly expand AEDC’s capabilities and capacity Beyond those existing today. Leveraging the capabilities of our parent companies, BNH specializes in testing and evaluation for military and space systems combined with proven capability in large-scale Government program management, integration, engineering, and construction services for specialized and technically advanced high-hazard facilities.\nU.S. Citizenship is required. At this time BNH will not sponsor any applicants for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1b, F1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, E-2, E-3, L-1, or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer). \nThe minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount BNH is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time jobs will be adjusted based upon the number of hours agreed to work at location Tennessee: Arnold Air Force, TN. \nL08: $91,000 - $124,500; L09: $108,000 - $147,000 / year at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. \nBNH is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 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