Splunk Professional Services
Tender Overview
About this tender
This Tender is invited by the Issuer. Overview Defence Housing Australia (DHA) is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced engineering service provider to deploy further features to its Splunk SIEM and to engineer a migration of the remaining core logs and alerts from its former SIEM. About DHA recently delivered a security monitoring and logging project and is now seeking to build on this work through the further engagement described in this opportunity. Scope The scope includes: Configuration of Splunk Stream to enhance DNS log visibility Additional log ingest activities Increasing and fine tuning SAAS platform log ingest Fine tuning alerting capability based on an internal health check report Dashboard creation for Integrity and Executive areas Splunk app configuration SOAR capability Ingest patterns Direct reporting of the project to the DHA Cyber Security Manager Discussion with the engaged resource to determine priorities, with documentation to be provided in place of implementation where time constraints are identified Contract Terms and Conditions Deliverables are expected to be met within a 160-hour block of work The resource is required to work onsite at DHA Head Office in Gungahlin, ACT for two days per week over 11 weeks The remaining three days per week will allow DHA to evaluate delivered work and fine tune additions or deductions to deliverables to maintain accurate timekeeping and value for money Contractor Requirements Demonstrated experience in delivering Splunk within government, or a medium to large agency NV1 security clearance essential CV of the proposed resource to be provided as part of the submission A single resource to be provided for the duration of the engagement
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