Splunk Engineer/Administrator 12+

Need a Splunk Engineer/Administrator at San Antonio, TX (Hybrid) (Locals)12+

NO H1b if need 1988 below DOB

12+ Month Contract

Locals preferred

Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company, in their search for a Splunk Engineer/Administrator. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity based out of San Antonio, TX (Hybrid).

Qualifications

• 11+ years of overall IT experience.
• 5+ years’ experience in managing, designing, and configuring Splunk environment (both on-prem and cloud).
• 5+ 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, JAVA, .NET, 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.
• Experience in Security information and event management (SIEM).
• Experience with RTIR.
• Certifications in Splunk, CISSP or similar.