Splunk Enterprise Security Engineer ***Only Locals***

Title: Splunk Enterprise Security Engineer

Duration: Long Term Contract

Location: Houston, TX (100% Onsite Work)

ComTec has an immediate need for a Splunk Enterprise Security Engineer who can be part of engineering and configuring one of our customers Splunk Enterprise Security environment.

This role is responsible for engineering, deployment, configuration, and support of the Splunk Enterprise Security environment.

Responsibilities:

• Configure, administer, and maintain a complex Splunk Enterprise Security environment designed to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Design, manage, administer and support Splunk Enterprise Security to optimize searches & correlation of events for threat identification and alert generation in a shared environment.
• Create and analyze utilization statistics to identify causes for system and application degradations.
• Assist in the proper operation and performance of Splunk, loggers and connectors.
• Integrate data feeds (logs) into Splunk.
• Setup & Maintain Dev, Test, Deployment and Prod systems
• Ensure Capacity and Availability of the platform
• Gather business requirements and develop mockup designs for reports and dashboards
• Develop, customize, and configure Splunk reports and dashboards
• Develop visualization dashboards and indicators that identify anomalous activities
• Build and integrate contextual data into actionable visualizations
• Assist in implementing integration with external systems

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Security administration, configuration, and support experience.
• Experience with programming and scripting using Javascript, Python, PowerShell and/or bash.
• Experience in analyzing general system processing throughput, utilization, and capacity.
• Extensive experience developing Splunk queries and building Splunk Dashboards.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills.

Nice to have Qualifications:

• Certifications for Splunk Enterprise Security.