Systems Administrator

***THIS ROLE IS OPEN TO SPONSORED CANDIDATES***

***THIS ROLE IS FOR A DIRECT CLIENT***

***CANDIDATES WITHIN 25 MILES FROM MCLEAN, VA ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY***

Systems Administrator

Location: REMOTE

Duration: 12 months.

Location: Remote working EST hours

Schedule: Some afterhours ours required, typically 4 6 times per month. Time will be compensated with alternate time off within the pay period.

Years of experience: 5+

Must Haves: Splunk, Unix/Linux, Integration, Splunk Cloud
Preferred: AWS, Scripting (Shell, PowerShell)

Requirements:

• Work towards onboarding data into Splunk utilizing multiple ingestion methods (UF, API, HTTPs, etc.)
• Work on advanced Splunk administration, and development efforts, with a goal towards enhancing/building out the Splunk infrastructure as it relates to application/machine logs, troubleshooting, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration.
• Support, maintain, and expand Splunk infrastructure in a highly resilient configuration.
• Standardized Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of platforms.
• Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues.
• Support Splunk developers and users in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Available for escalations and support operations for Splunk.
• Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms.
• Automate processes and procedures where applicable.
• Research, design, evaluate, recommend and support major hardware and software enhancements.
• Design, code and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Splunk development/administration, installation, configuration, clustering, monitoring, query design, dashboard design.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with UNIX/Linux administration/engineering.
• Experience with scripting (Perl, shell, etc.).
• Experience with integration/web technologies (use SDKs, REST, JSON, XML, etc.).
• Experience developing/delivering presentations to management and stakeholders.
• Experience in SPLUNK, Compuware Dynatrace, UEM, APMaaS (Gomez), Foglight and ELK ASP.Net, C#, XML, HTML, JAVA Script, CSS, SQL and Python scripting.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise on AWS.
• Experience with Splunk Cloud.