Splunk Administrator

Splunk Administrator

Will share the JC ASP

Austin, TX (Day one Onsite)

Salary within $135K including variables.

Technical Skills :

Key Skills : Splunk Administration, Splunk Development, LINUX, Scripting / automation experience (Python, Shell, Bash, Ansible, , GIT for source code management Splunk Administrator or Architect certification will be an added advantage Good to Have : Ansible, AWS / Kubernetes integration with Splunk (basics is

Role and Responsibilities :

Experience with Splunk Engineering, administration, deployment, troubleshooting, onboarding data and maintenance for a large-scale network environment Experience with Linux and Windows agents for Splunk administration with a solid understanding of the Splunk system.

Implement and maintain Splunk Platform Infrastructure and Configuration, involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms Apps / Dashboards for license usage and Application errors.

Monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability and capacity Storage performance, CPU, Memory, Forwarder installations and patching upgrades Hands on experience in scripting languages, regular expressions to automate tasks and manipulate data, KV store collection and lookup management, index and search time field extractions Hands on experience in creating & customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations using customized Splunk queries, reports, scheduled searches and alerts, Splunk workflow actions, KPI services and undertake day-to-day operational and user support Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal Forwarder Hands on experience in scripting languages, regular expressions to automate tasks and manipulate data, restrict access to sensitive logs / data.

Identifying bad searches / dashboards and partnering with the creators to improve performance. Knowledge of enterprise logging, including application, OS, security technology logging and Splunkit framework Lead Proof-of-Concepts (POC) on Splunk implementation, mentored and guided other team members on understand the use case of Splunk Ensure data quality in line with client’s use cases and maintain current functional and technical knowledge of the Splunk platform Expertise in writing advanced queries and knowledge on Splunk Development Activities.

Knowledge on SPL commands (streaming, generating, transforming, orchestrating & dataset processing commands) Develop reliable, efficient queries, summary indexes, data models that will feed custom alerts and dashboards Provide regular support and guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution