Bank Of America Senior Splunk Engineer 

United States, Colorado, Denver 

503990791

Job Description:

Job Description:

Our Security Operations and Threat Response team within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Technology function works to continuously strengthen the bank’s cyber security posture through partnership and delivery of technology to support our content detection and threat hunt teams. This team works with partners in Cyber Security Operations to deliver robust technology solutions and support for detection engineering environments and content scenarios.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Incident Response, Content Development or Equivalent Experience in a large Enterprise Splunk Environment performing triage and administrative duties.
• Direct experience performing content detection engineering and threat hunting in an active corporate environment.
• Significant experience working with Splunk Procedure Language to create and tune detections.
• Experience mapping data fields to a common data model such as CEF, OCSF.
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue
• Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience with enterprise scale EDR, SIEM, and SOAR tools.
• Experience in requirements gathering around the Splunk tool, documenting requirements, requirement analysis, product testing, etc.
• Splunk Infrastructure Management Experience/Knowledge
• Collaborate with teams to Monitor and optimize the performance of the Splunk environment, to ensure efficient data processing and search capabilities on our search heads.
• Ability to troubleshoot, triage and resolve issues related to Splunk Infrastructure, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Experience in Splunk enterprise and Splunk Cloud

Data Ingestion and Parsing:

• Design and implement data ingestion strategies for various log sources into Splunk.
• Develop and maintain parsing configurations to normalize and enrich incoming data for effective analysis.
• Collaborate with application owners and IT teams to onboard new data sources into Splunk.
• Search and Reporting:
• Create and optimize search queries and reports to extract valuable insights from the indexed data.
• Customize and implement Splunk dashboards for different stakeholders to visualize key performance indicators and security metrics.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement security best practices within Splunk to safeguard sensitive data.
• Collaborate with the security team to configure and monitor alerts for suspicious activities or security incidents.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal policies related to log management and data retention.
• Automation and Scripting:
• Develop automation scripts using SPL (Search Processing Language) and other scripting languages to streamline administrative tasks.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve efficiency through automation in Splunk processes.

Documentation and Training:

• Maintain thorough documentation of Splunk configurations, processes, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Provide training and support to other IT team members on Splunk best practices and usage.
• Experience consuming, analyzing, and reporting Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with offensive security tools and integration of SIEM, SOAR, CSPM and other technical integrations within large enterprise networks.
• Knowledge of basic Data Science concepts and processes.
• Experience performing security analysis and threat hunting in Cloud environments such as Azure, M365, AWS
• Experience Maintaining KV Stores.
• Experience Performing Regular Updates/Upgrades on Splunk Apps and Add-ons. As well as the Splunk environment as a whole.

Skills:

• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Access and Identity Management
• Critical Thinking
• Cyber Security
• Information Systems Management
• Risk Management
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Financial Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.