Software Engineer with Splunk

MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Software Engineer to join our team located in the Ft. Meade, MD area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Leverage IT automation to perform daily tasks associated with data repositories on air-gapped networks.
• Perform Bash shell scripting
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing virtual environments
• Experience configuring and maintaining storage and file systems
• Experience in developing and delivering briefings, technical presentations, and program documentation to senior program management 
• Demonstrated experience working with a team to introduce and integrate new technologies into existing production environments   
• Document and maintain SOPs on the configuration of the system

Minimum Qualifications:

• 14+ years of Software engineering experience with a bachelor’s degree in system engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline or 19 years of systems engKInda felt bacdlyneering experience and associate’s degree may be substituted.
• 2 years of experience in architecting, deploying and general administration of Splunk to include infrastructure planning, data collection and comprehension, development and integration, configuring data inputs and forwarders, data management, creating/managing user accounts, and general troubleshooting and monitoring
• Intermediate familiarization for the configuration, orchestration, and development of containerized applications (Ranger/Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with Python AND JavaScript AND Bash shell scripting
• Familiarity with Linux administration, system file hierarchy, root commands
• Ability to troubleshoot and deploy tools such as Redhat and Ansible.
• Ability to automate dataflow between distributed software systems.
• Hands-on experience with NIFI to forward collected log events to repositories for analysis.
• Familiarity with this open-source platform for the development of containerized applications for distributed applications e.g. Kubernetes.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to launch and configure VMWare instances (i.e., vCenter)
• Create/Maintain bash scripts to dump and load databases
• Experience with Ruby, Java and Perl
• Fundamental experience with DevOps tools such as nxLog, Graphana, GIT, SaltStack (SALT)

Clearance Requirement: 

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI with Poly 
   

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as, the copy machine/fax machine/computer/printer.