The Opportunity:

• The Splunk Software Engineer (SWE) is a Linuxfocused, highly versatile engineering generalist with strong troubleshooting, automation, and crossdomain security experience who serves on a crossfunctional team of systems engineers. They also act as the teams subject matter expert for Splunk applications and analytics.

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the teams Linux expert, performing OS installation, configuration, user management, networking, and system maintenance.

• Manage hardware using tools like iDRAC, including BIOS updates, firmware upgrades, RAID configuration, and basic hardware troubleshooting.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across operating systems, hardware, networks, data flows, and applications.

• Build and manipulate files using core UNIX utilities, including creating tar archives, splitting files, and preparing data for constrained transfer paths.

• Support automation workflows using Salt, and adapt quickly from related tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

• Build, deploy, or maintain Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) or similar highassurance boundary security technologies.

• Act as the teams subject matter expert for Splunk applications, dashboards, data routing, and analytics.

Qualifications:
Required:

• Strong Linux system administration experience, including OS installation, configuration, user and permission management, networking fundamentals, and commandline operations.

• Experience managing hardware using tools like iDRAC (or similar), including BIOS and firmware updates, RAID configuration, and basic hardware troubleshooting.

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across operating systems, hardware, networks, applications, and data flows.

• Proficiency with core UNIX commandline utilities for file manipulation, packaging, and transfer (e.g., tar, split, checksum tools).

• Experience using Salt for configuration management or build automation, or strong adjacent experience with Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

• Experience building, deploying, or maintaining Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) such or similar highassurance boundary security technologies.

• Experience supporting or developing Splunk applications, dashboards, data routing, and analytics as the teams Splunk subject matter expert.

Must have experience in at least 4 of the below technologies:
JavaScript
Regular Expressions (RegEx)
REST services
Python frameworks
Elasticsearch or Splunk
CI/CD processes
Monitoring tools (such as Nagios or Elastic Beats)
Apache NiFi
React or Angular
DevOps tools (Ansible, Salt, Docker)
Cribl

Education and Experience:

• All experience and education must be in a technical field directly related to the labor category and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions.

• 7 years minimum experience and a High School Diploma/GED

• 5 years minimum experience and an Associate's Degree

• 3 years minimum experience and a Bachelor's Degree

• 1 year minimum experience and a Master's Degree

• Splunk certification in Splunk Accredited Core Implementation

Desired:

• Advanced Linux expertise, including system recovery techniques, deep commandline proficiency, including expertise with ssh/tunneling, authentication/certificates, and tools such as sed, awk, grep, rsync, and dd.

• Experience performing hardware lifecycle operations such as disk replacement, RAID adjustments, firmware baselining, and remote KVM troubleshooting.

• Handson experience optimizing or customizing Salt states, modules, or orchestration workflows.

• Experience with adjacent automation frameworks such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform in mixedtool environments.

• Prior experience designing, modifying, or validating configurations and filtering rules for CDS or other highassurance boundary security technologies.

• Experience integrating Splunk into constrained, airgapped, or crossdomain environments.

• Familiarity with DevOps workflows including CI/CD pipelines, version control best practices, and automated build processes.

• Experience supporting distributed systems and diagnosing issues across complex data flows or multisystem interactions.

What You Can Expect:

A culture of integrity.

Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

The proposed salary range for this position is: