Cybersecurity Engineer (Splunk)

Salary Range: Various factors are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, education, certifications, and competencies that align with the specified role, as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position. The pay range for this position is: $155,000-$165,000

Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance

Location: Columbus, OH or Richmond, VA

Who We Are

Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) is a dynamic IT and Management Consulting firm based in the Washington, DC area. Founded in 1996, Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) has evolved into a company of highly qualified professionals that provides full-cycle IT Consultant and Management support in both the private and public sectors.

Horizon’s culture is based on our core values, and we PRIDE ourselves on a diverse, employee, and family-centric approach.

Program Overview

The JETS Program provides the full range of IT services, technical and management expertise that support applications, software, hardware, infrastructure, and systems, across the DLA IT Enterprise. Support is provided for information technology solutions, technical support, maintenance, and sustainment; operations support; application development, maintenance, and technical support; and lifecycle management. Additionally, the program also supports administrative program management support for IT program offices and DLA Information Operations (J6) Office. The program provides support technology services across the DLA Information Operations Enterprise, the DLA Program Executive Offices (PEO), and all other technology services currently supported through DLA Contracting Services Office (DCSO) acquisitions.

Who we are looking for

If you are looking for a challenging cybersecurity opportunity that allows you to develop and learn in a stable and growing organization…come joins us as a Cybersecurity Engineer at Horizon. Horizon Industries Limited (Horizon) is a dynamic IT and Management Consulting firm based in the Washington, DC area and we are currently seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer for a full-time position supporting the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) onsite in Columbus, OH. or Richmond, VA.

Summary of requirements

7 years relevant IT experience
DoD 8140 - Primary DCWF Work Role 521 Proficiency Level: Intermediate certification
Secondary DCWF Work Role 451 : Proficiency Level: Intermediate Certification
Splunk Administrator
Linux+
Active Top Secret Clearance

Preferred Skills and Experience

CERT or SOC Experience : Knowledge of or hands-on experience with Incident Response and Incident Handling processes.
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) : Experience with SIEM tools for monitoring, analysis, and threat detection.
SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) : Familiarity with automation capabilities and ability to identify new opportunities for process automation.
UAM (User Activity Monitoring) : Understanding of user behavior analysis and activity monitoring solutions.
Linux : Working knowledge of Linux environments.
Cribl : Experience using Cribl for data routing, observability pipelines, or log management.

Position Description

Perform a variety of routine project tasks applied to specialized information assurance problems
Execute integration of electronic processes or methodologies to resolve total system problems, or technology problems as they relate to IA requirements
Conduct security assessments and security consulting services
Analyze information security requirements
Apply analytical and systematic approaches in the resolution of problems of work flow, organization, and planning
Provides security engineering support for planning, design, development, testing, demonstration, integration of information systems
Analyze threat information gathered from logs, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), intelligence reports, vendor sites, and a variety of other sources