SITEC - Splunk Data Engineer - MacDill AFB
Company: Peraton
Location: US-FL-MacDill AFB (Remote)
Salary: $104k - $166k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-13
About this role
## Responsibilities
Peraton requires Systems Engineers to support the Special Operation Command Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) – 3 EOM.
This position is located at MacDill AFB in Florida.
The purpose of the Special Operations Forces Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance (EOM) Task Order (TO) is to provide USSOCOM, its Component Commands, its Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs), and its deployed forces with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services to maintain Network Operations (NetOps); maintain systems and network infrastructure; provide end user and common device support; provide configuration, change, license, and asset management; conduct training, and perform Install, Move, Add, Change (IMACs) services. The responsibilities and tasks associated with each requirement play a pivotal role to USSOCOM, the CIO/J6 organization, and ultimately the end-user who operate around the globe 24x7x365.
The Splunk Data Engineer will serve as a technical subject matter expert focused on the visibility and analytics capabilities supporting the enterprise Zero Trust architecture. This role is responsible for engineering, deploying, and maintaining comprehensive data ingestion pipelines into the enterprise Splunk environment across Department of War (DoW) networks. The engineer will design and implement robust data onboarding processes, engineer edge processing solutions (e.g., Splunk Edge Processor, Heavy Forwarders) for data filtering and transformation, and establish standardized data tagging schemas. By leveraging enterprise logging and telemetry platforms, the engineer will ensure high-fidelity data lineage, optimal storage tiering, and compliant telemetry integration to support advanced threat hunting and compliance reporting.
- Engineer, configure, and maintain robust data onboarding pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured telemetry into the enterprise Splunk deployment.
- Impleme...