Senior Systems Administrator

Senior System Administrator
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior System Administrator for their Vancouver, Washington location. This position will develop, deploy, and maintain a large data analytics platform for integrating data streams from multiple sources. This position will capture requirements, assist in system design in the full life cycle; from concept, data ingestion, data governance application decomposition, creation of dashboards, to implementation in medium to large scale environments using industry data management tools (e.g. Splunk) to capture large volumes of data. This onsite position is a one-year renewable contract. If you think you d be a good fit, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior System Administrator:

• Hands on Splunk administration experience of a multi-site distributed Splunk environment including experience with data onboarding, indexer clustering, search head clustering, and index replication.
• Monitoring Splunk system updates and planning, reviewing, and executing patch/upgrade deployments.
• Perform on-boarding of standard and custom data sources in Splunk and have a thorough knowledge of using regular expressions to create extractions.
• Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc.
• Installing and configuring new deployments of Splunk Enterprise and Premium Apps such as Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk IT Service Intelligence.
• Setting up Splunk Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment.
• Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability.
• Understand current issues and propose potential Splunk solutions.
• Educating new users on the value that Splunk provides and its technical capabilities.
• Monitoring the Splunk infrastructure (Identify bad searches, dashboards, overall health of Splunk).
• Conduct frequent capacity review of Splunk environments.
• Build automation to improve day-to-day operations towards self-service capabilities.
• Integration of threat intelligence feeds and with other security tools to facilitate automation.
• Perform deployments of Splunk configurations using Splunk Deployment Server, Cluster Master, and Deployer to support data onboarding and other maintenance/upgrade activities.
• Develop search queries to support incident investigative efforts to correlate events.
• Define, develop, implement, tune, and monitor process and procedures to support and maintain Splunk ES and ITSI, to enable proactive issue identification and resolution.
• Configuration management of Splunk ES and ITSI with future growth in mind to enable a balance between scalability, performance, stability, reliability, and agility.

Requirements for Senior System Administrator:

• A Bachelor s in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred.
  • With an Associate s or Bachelor s degree in applicable fields, 8 years of experience is required.
  • Without an applicable degree, 10 years of progressive hand-on experience in design, implementation, and support of moderate to complex Splunk Solutions is required.
• Experience must include direct work experience in Information Technology performing System Administration.
• Experience includes a minimum combination of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
• 5 years of IT Security Center Operations (SOC) experience in complex environments with extensive knowledge of computer networking and platforms, including (but not limited to) network operating systems; firewalls; intrusion detection/prevention systems; wireless security including wireless intrusion prevention systems; web proxies; vulnerability scanning technologies; VPN s; Windows and Unix-based platforms; identity management; IT incident response; security configuration automation, logging and network architecture.
• Must have hands on experience with Splunk in Multi-cluster/Multi-site environment.
• Setting up Splunk Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment.
• Hands-on experience architecting, building, deploying Splunk instances.
• Working knowledge of Splunk Validated Architectures.
• Creating/Testing/Deploying Splunk upgrades, configurations changes, etc. in multiple environments.
• Monitor the Splunk infrastructure (Identify bad searches, dashboards, overall health of Splunk), to identify bad searches/dashboards and partnering with the creators to improve performance).
• Solid grasp of best practices as recommended by Splunk.
• Experience with administration in both the Linux and Windows operating systems; comfortable on the command line interface, including writing python and basic shell scripts.
• Working knowledge or recent experience with scripting languages (bash, python, or Perl), networking, system administration, databases, and analytical tools.
• Experience with ticketing management systems such as Change Gear or Cherwell.

**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc: Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status. LF BH12397