Key Metrics of Success for the Team
Improved system reliability, as measured by adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
Comprehensive and regularly updated automated test coverage for all critical systems and infrastructure components.
Timely identification and resolution of performance bottlenecks and failure points.
Integration of automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring continuous reliability validation.
Increased scalability and performance of systems under high load due to effective performance testing.
What You'll Get to Do
Administer, maintain, and perform daily Operations and Maintenance (O&M) for distributed Splunk Enterprise environments, including Search Heads, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, Intermediate Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, and Deployment Servers across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Monitor platform health, data ingestion, indexing throughput, search performance, and retention utilization; troubleshoot data onboarding, parsing, field extraction, forwarding, indexing, and ingestion issues.
Support Splunk Cloud integrations and associated hybrid operational activities.
Maintain Splunk applications, dashboards, alerts, saved searches, and knowledge objects.
Support patching, vulnerability remediation, Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliance, and system hardening activities.
Support platform upgrades, migrations, infrastructure modernization, technology refresh, and automation initiatives using scripting and configuration-management tools.
Participate in incident response, outage troubleshooting, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.
Maintain operational documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs), and coordinate with cybersecurity, network, server, engineering, and customer teams during operational and modernization activities.
Participate in after-hours support and an on-call rotation as required.
You'll Bring These Qualifications
Ability to work onsite at Norfolk Naval Station Monday through Friday day shift.
Requires BS degree and 8-10 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 7 years of prior relevant experience.
U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret Security Clearance.
Minimum of DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II Certification required.
Must have a Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin or Splunk Cloud Certified Admin Certification.
Minimum three years of experience administering Splunk Enterprise v9 and supporting distributed Splunk architectures in hybrid cloud and on-premises production environments.
Experience administering and troubleshooting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and/or RHEL 9 servers.
Experience with STIGs, the Risk Management Framework (RMF), vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
Experience developing and maintaining operational dashboards, visualizations, and executive reporting in Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
Strong working knowledge of Splunk data ingestion pipelines, indexing, parsing, forwarding, search optimization, and retention management.
Experience using at least one scripting or automation language: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, collaborate across technical teams, and maintain a customer-focused approach in a high-tempo production environment.
Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, ability to work in a team environment.
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have
Experience with automated script design, coding, debugging, and maintenance skills (using bash, python, etc.) preferred.
Experience working in classified government or Department of Defense environments.
Familiarity with RHEL 10
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Original Posting
October 27, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range
Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
