Splunk Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking a Splunk Administrator in Raleigh, NC.

Summary:
The client is seeking an engineer with a systems administration background to serve as a DevOps Engineer. In this role, you will work with other technical and non-technical leaders. You will become a member of the Developer Enablement group - a small, agile team focused on fostering DevOps culture and facilitating continuous integration and delivery across the client's global enterprise IT organization. As a DevOps Engineer, you will develop, communicate, and exercise a working knowledge of what it takes for DevOps to be successful, engaging, and fun in an enterprise IT environment.

This role will join the monitoring and logging team in the developer and enablement area in IT. They will assist with completing the maintenance of Splunk and other monitoring tools.

Responsibilities:
* Work on a highly scalable and available centralized logging platform (MLS-P) comprised of Splunk and other platforms
* Work extensively on automation of distributed clusters, data pipelines, application onboarding, etc. the following Infrastructure as code (IaC) principles
* Contribute to deliverables as an SME in Splunk platform
* Develop, integrate, and automate platform modules/workflows
* Triage and work on highly complex issues with broad technical or strategic implications with Splunk
* Drive issue resolution and root cause analysis and report communications back to stakeholders
* Document and train others on processes, best practices, and tooling
* Coordinate with project management for the completion of stories in the Agile methodology
* Translate backlog items into engineering design and logical units of work or tasks

REQUIREMENTS:
* Experienced in Splunk (must have), and Ansible; Splunk experience must have administration experience with Splunk; Application knowledge of Splunk is necessary to complete search indexes
* Experience with aggregation and management tools (Loggly, Logstash, Sumo logic or Splunk)
* Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Splunk (or any of the following Stackdriver, Cloudwatch, Sensu, NewRelic)
* Power-user of Linux environment, and strong scripting skills in Python
* Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git) and automated testing tools (i.e., Selenium, JMeter)
* Experience in Agile Scrum teams (i.e., JIRA/Confluence, Rally)
* Basic experience deploying systems on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), especially AWS

Nice to have:
* Basic experience deploying applications on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), especially OpenShift

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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