Splunk Engineer

Job Description

Splunk Engineer

Location: Remote position

Contract Length: 6+ Months

No H1b !

If you have interested in submitting candidate, please return to me:

1) Have the candidate fill out the attached skill matrix

2) Provide the most current resume;

We are looking for IT Infrastructure and Operations Analyst (Splunk Admin) with the following technical skills

Experienced engineer with history of deploying highly available and scalable Splunk environments.
Experience deploying clustered indexers and search heads
Experience deploying configuring Splunk for disaster recovery
Experience developing and administering Splunk distributed Clustered Architecture implementation of Splunk Enterprise.
Experience with technically leading a team of Splunk admins.
Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture, administration, designing, and developing solutions using the Splunk Enterprise application.
Experience with Splunk Knowledge Objects (Dashboards/Reports/Alerts/Saved Searches/Macros/Lookups and others)
Strong knowledge of Splunk App and add-on, installation & upgrades.
Experience in building Splunk Custom Dashboards, Rich and advanced visualization /Commands Development and expertise with SPL Commands and queries.
Strong knowledge of the Splunk Data Inputs (HEC/Scripts and others) and configuration files.
Strong technical knowledge of red hat Linux and managing RHEL Azure Instances.
Proficient in regex, field extraction, summary indexing, and other critical Splunk concepts.
Strong knowledge of working with APIs and getting data into Splunk from various data sources
Hands-on Experience with Microsoft Azure and DevOps.
Provide technical support and solutions related to implementation, configuration, and maintenance Linux Servers primarily within Azure.
Knowledge of Network, virtualization, load balancer, and storage in Azure
Work on escalated/production issues and provide solutions adhering to the SLA.
Experience in writing scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.) for automation tasks will be an added advantage.
Good Understanding of storage and backup administration.
Essential Duties and responsibilities:

IT Operations

Daily duties include managing and monitoring Splunk Infrastructure and data inputs. All other Splunk Admin responsibilities.
Provide support to the Application team to build dashboards, alerts, and rich visualization from their raw application data.
Performance optimization – Optimize existing and new search queries and dashboards to improve performance.
Data onboarding: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing, to onboard new data sources to Splunk – via Universal Forwarders, HTTP Event Collector, APIs, Scripts, etc.
Map data to Splunk CIM to meet stakeholder and data governance requirements.
Working on Onboarding new data/applications to Splunk, user access, index, and data management
Apply in-depth knowledge of IT infrastructure to perform complex technical assignments.
Analyzing current Splunk Knowledge objects and other configurations to improve Splunk performance and usage.
Simulate or recreate user problems to resolve operating difficulties
Interact with network services, software systems engineering, and/or applications development to restore service and/or identify and correct core problem
Research, analyze, develop, and document new processes and procedures to implement new solutions to meet future problem resolution needs
Responsible for proactively communicating upcoming infrastructure changes to management and end-users where needed.
Maintain technical documentation
Education:

Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field
Preferred Domain Expertise Certificates depending on the role:
Azure & AWS Certified
Windows & Linux Certified
Splunk Certification
Experience

Experience working with Splunk Enterprise.
IT Experience
Experience within a Cloud Computing and IT Operations Role
Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications:

Certification in AWS and Azure will be preferred.
Soft Skills Required

Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Strong client-service orientation
Sound business acumen and strategic skills
Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including strong presentation skills.
Strong client-service orientation
A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment.
Outstanding organizational skills
Ability to collaborate effectively at all levels and functions