Splunk EngineerAdministrator

Splunk Engineer/Administrator
San Antonio TX (Hybrid)
12 Month Contract

USC GC GC EAD & H4 EAD

Qualifications:

• 8 years of overall IT experience.
• 3 years experience in managing designing and configuring Splunk environment (both on-prem and cloud).
• 3 years experience in a Linux environment including administration scripting or supporting applications.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security Premium Application and Splunk Enterprise.
• Experience in requirement gathering and documentation.
• Experience in developing and supporting Splunk Applications.
• Experience in automation with programming languages like Python and Ansible is a plus.
• Experience in technologies like GIT JIRA and Automation Testing.
• Familiarity with Phantom Cloud computing Web Interfaces Databases Big Data technologies (like Hadoop Kafka etc.).
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.
• Splunk Admin Certification is mandatory.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Splunk core admin experience is mandatory.

Responsibilities:

• Support admin maintain and expand Splunk infrastructure to meet future architecture design and deployment requirements.
• Develop distributed Splunk applications including requirement gathering coordinating Splunk setup.
• Recommended Splunk implementation best practices and fixes.
• Design implement and optimize Splunk applications (to include Enterprise Security) queries knowledge objects and data models.
• Perform basic and advanced scripting tasks with Splunk to automate repeatable processes using Python.
• Deploy Best Practices for developing Splunk Apps and create a conceptual architecture for a continuous improvement initiative.
• Provide an Impact assessment for migration efforts.
• Support Performance Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Design and implement Custom Searches and reports.
• Build proof of concepts for Splunk enhancements.
• Tuning information model defining reusable templates.
• Define reusable view templates and retention & archival policies.
• Provide an Impact assessment for migration efforts and coordinate migration activities.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Security information and event management (SIEM).
• Experience with RTIR.
• Certifications in Splunk CISSP or similar.