SPLUNK Administrator

Job Description: SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
THIS WILL BE A 3MONTH CONTRACT WORKING AT THE CLEMSON UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER .

DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
SPLUNK ADMINISTRATOR THAT MANAGES THE SYSTEM UTILIZING LINUX CLUSTER AND MANAGEMENT CONSOLE APPLICATIONS.
50% MANAGEMENT OF DAILY SPUNK OPERATION SYSTEMS. COLLABORATE AND LIAISE WITH OTHER UNITS AND SERVE AS A TECHNICAL RESOURCE AND SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT.
35% CONTRIBUTE TO AND COLABORATE ON ZFS PERMISSIONS AND FUNCTIONALITY.
15% TRAIN AND ADVISE LESS SKILLED SYSTEMS PROGRAMMERS AND PROVIDE EXPERT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR OTHERS. OTHER LINUX OS NEEDS

SPLUNK ADMINISTRATION:
THE SPLUNK SYSTEM IS INSTALLED IN A LINUX CLUSTER. ADMIN WILL NEED ADVANCED UNDERSTANDING OF LINUX DAILY CARE OF VERIFYING SPLUNK IS RUNNING PROPERLY. CREATION OF NEW INDEXES AND UPDATING APPLICATIONS ADDING NEW SOURCE TYPES ADDING NEW SERVERS AND LOGS TO SPLUNK
DAILY VERIFICATION OF LICENSE COUNTS ABILITY TO CREATE DASHBOARDS (AND ABLE TO TEACH OTHERS HOW TO MAKE DASHBOARDS USE OF SPLUNK MANAGEMENT CONSOLE AND APPLICATIONS.

ZFS ADMINISTRATION:
ZFS server OS build and HCIS configurations
Handle Firewall exceptions
Zettaknight Installation
Configure administer monitor and maintain ZFS datasets
Check dataset usage/utilization
Create new datasets
Configure datasets as requested and setup dataset replication
Manage snapshots
Decommission datasets as requested
Configure and Export client/user shares on the ZFS server
Samba/CIFS
NFSGanesha
Document deployed datasets their replication state and associated shares
Monitor ZFS emails and alerts for issues
Report bugs with ZFS or ZFS utilities to ZFS SMEs

TECHNICAL SOURCE:
BE A TECHNICAL SOURCE TO HELP WINDOWS AND LINUX ADMINS INSTALL THE SPLUNK CLIENT AND VERIFY LOGS ARE FLOWING TO THE SPLUNK CLUSTERS GENERAL LINUX AND WINDOWS KNOWLEDGE TO BE ABLE TO HELP WITH LOG COLLECTION ON THE CLIENT SIDE. ABILITY TO TRAIN OTHER ADMINS IN ADVANCED LOG SEARCHING TECHNIQUES. GENERAL SPLUNK TROUBLESHOOTING TECHNIQUES AND KNOWLEDGE ON HOW TO WORK WITH SPLUNK (THE COMPANY)

SPLUNK ARCHITECTURE:
THEY WILL BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE CLUSTER. IF THEY ARE ABLE TO FIND DEFICIENCIES IN THE DESIGN THEY ARE WELCOME TO IMPLEMENT THE CHANGES.

SPLUNK UPGRADES:
UNIVERSAL FORWARDERS AND SPLUNK ENTERPRISE VERSION UPGRADES.

TRAINING:
SHARE KNOWLEDGE AND TEACH OTHER LINUX ADMINS IN THE SAME TEAM

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
EXTENSIVE/EXPERT KNOWLEDGE SPLUNK ENTERPRISE ADMIN AND GENERAL LINUX ADMIN.

SPLUNK CERTIFICATIONS

GOOD SCRIPTING PROGRAMMING AND
AUTOMATION ABILITIES. SOFT SKILLS

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS (WRITTEN AND ORAL) ADAPTABILITY SELFMOTIVATION PROBLEM SOLVING ANALYTICAL THINKING TIME MANAGEMENT ABILITY TO WORK
EFFECTIVELY IN A STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENT CUSTOMER FOCUSED DETAIL ORIENTED TEAM PLAYER

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
LINUX
REQUIRED BUT NOT AS EXPERT:
ELASTICSEARCH ADMINISTRATION
GIT KNOWLEDGE (ALL OF OUR SPLUNK
CONFIGURATIONS FILES ARE STORED IN GIT)

RHCT RHCE OR SIMILAR LINUX CERTIFICATIONS HIGHLY DESIRABLE
Additional Sills: EXTENSIVE/EXPERT KNOWLEDGE SPLUNK ENTERPRISE ADMIN AND GENERAL LINUX ADMIN. SPLUNK CERTIFICATIONS GOOD SCRIPTING PROGRAMMING AND AUTOMATION ABILITIES. SOFT SKILLS EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS (WRITTEN AND ORAL) ADAPTABILITY SELFMOTIVATION PROBLEM SOLVING ANALYTICAL THINKING TIME MANAGEMENT ABILITY TO WORK EFFECTIVELY IN A STRESSFUL ENVIRONMENT CUSTOMER FOCUSED DETAIL ORIENTED TEAM PLAYERPREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):LINUXREQUIRED BUT NOT AS EXPERT:ELASTICSEARCH ADMINISTRATION GIT KNOWLEDGE (ALL OF OUR SPLUNK CONFIGURATIONS FILES ARE STORED IN GIT)RHCT RHCE OR SIMILAR LINUX CERTIFICATIONS HIGHLY DESIRABLE Skills: Database Platforms Redhat Linux Server Yes 1 Advanced Within 1 Year 4 6 Years Database Platforms Scripting Language experience Yes 1 Advanced Within 1 Year 4 6 Years Operating Systems/APIs Linux Yes 1 Advanced Within 1 Year 4 6 Years Programming Languages Programming experience Yes 1 Advanced Within 1 Year 4 6 Years Software Framwork SPLUNK Infrastructure Administration Yes 1 Advanced Within 6 Months 4 6 Years Software Framwork SPLUNK Operations Yes 1 Advanced Within 6 Months 4 6 Years