Security Clearance required:

Able to obtain Public Trust

Do you want to make a difference?

Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

Come Join Our Team

Cognosante is seeking to fill a Senior Cloud Logging Engineer position in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA’s IT infrastructure.

What is the position?

Cognosante is seeking a Senior Cloud Logging Engineer in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) contract supporting the VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) Splunk environment. The Senior Cloud Logging Engineer must have expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in additional to experience with Splunk.

What will I get to do?

• Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure.

• Automate the management and enforcement of policies.

• Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk.

• Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns.

• Help maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure.

• Help monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity.

• Maintain cloud network configurations.

• Maintain gold images.

• Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support as needed.

• Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.

• Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution.

• Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind to optimize performance, stability, reliability, and agility.

• Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage.

• Responsible for Splunk agent (i.e., Universal Forwarder) deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.

• Support and guide client resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers, and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.

• Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise and cloud data centers.

• Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers.

• Utilize automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar.

What qualifications do I need?

• Candidate background eligibility requirements are United States citizen or be a Permanent Resident and have lived in the United States for at least 3 years, clean criminal background and able to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline OR AWS/Azure Certification (AWS Professional / Specialty Cert. OR Azure Expert / Advanced Cert.) OR 4 years of relevant experience in one of the VAECOT suite of tools (Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics)

• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.

• Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring, and using AWS cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines

• Minimum of three (3) years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution (CLS)/Splunk

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Experience

• Subject matter expertise with ALL VAEC Cloud Service Providers which currently includes Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Experience with programming with Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, Powershell, AWS or Azure CLI)

• Knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging

• A solid understanding of cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics

Candidates that do not meet the minimum qualifications will not be considered.

What additional characteristics will help me thrive?

• Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization

• Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position

• Background that includes at least one core technology; Linux/Windows or database admin (for example), with exp. working application migrations

• Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above

• One or more of these Splunk certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin

• ITIL certification or experience with ITIL

• Must be capable of working closely with the project leadership and technical resources to understand issues and work toward resolution

• Multiple Microsoft or Amazon cloud certifications

• Previous Federal Government experience

• Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment

• Strong creative, analytical and problem solving and trouble-shooting skills

• Strong knowledge (recent experience) with the following technologies: storage, servers, data centers, networking

• Strong technical experiences working migrations or systems development as well as coordinating from a business perspective

• Strong understanding of SDLC concepts, full lifecycle development for systems/applications

What We Offer  

Our mission is to provide comprehensive and competitive pay, benefits, services, and programs to eligible employees and their dependents that: 

• Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees  

• Support employee retention and attraction 

• Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office 

Compensation

$113,927.72 - $187,981.83

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

What We Promise  

Cognosante employees are inspired by our bold mission to improve lives. To achieve this mission, we put our people first. No matter where they're located around the nation, our innovative workplaces enable individuals to apply their skills and experience to work toward a greater good.

We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. And we invest in the next generation of diverse talent to foster an inclusive, progressive, adaptable workplace that prioritizes advancement for all. As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.  

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At Cognosante, we innovate with purpose. Each day, we create meaningful change by delivering mission-driven solutions for healthcare, civilian, and defense government agencies. When you work at Cognosante, you’ll apply your talents and grow your career with an organization that believes in the missions of our customers – and the right every employee has to an inclusive, flexible, and collaborative workplace. Work with us, and you’ll be challenged and supported—and have the platform to elevate your career to wherever your professional aspirations lead.​

Get to know Cognosante employees

• We’re driven by our customers’ missions, and measure success by how we improve lives.

• We believe innovative solutions start with an innovative culture.

• We believe customer understanding is the key to creating innovative solutions.

• We know we are stronger together, and we value the diversity of our people.

• We believe growth should be a core job benefit.

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