Splunk Engineer (9+yrs exp. Needed)

Position: Splunk engineer (9+yrs exp. Needed)

Location: Remote

Type: long term contract

Rate: open

What are the top skills required for this role?

1. Splunk SaaS Admin

2. Splunk configuration

Job Description/ Responsibilities

Splunk implementation and support team. Responsible for the development, communication, implementation and support of a multi tera bytes per day Splunk Cloud Setup.

New Data point integration and ingestion using API/HEC and third-party data streaming tools.

Design & administer a Splunk AWS Cloud cluster that can handle terabytes per day ingestion volume

Provide day-to-day support maintaining multiple large Splunk implementations with over 400 TBs of daily log ingestion

Install and maintain Splunk Universal forwarder on Application/Web/DB servers

Perform version upgrades and patch installation on Splunk infrastructure

Monitor, research, and remediate flagged vulnerabilities of Splunk infrastructure, software, and technical apps and add-ons

Thoroughly document procedures to support Splunk Infrastructure

Write scripts to automate Splunk Administration activities

Provide explanation and information to others on difficult issues

Participate in on-call for responding to any Splunk related issues and resolve / escalate on time

Work with Splunk Support to resolve any issues on time

Define, measure & report key performance indicators reflecting the platform health of Splunk environments

Develop monitoring for Splunk infrastructure ensure Splunk infrastructure is up and running and performing with maximum efficiency 24X7.

Identify & quantify the scope and impact of business changes on systems

Maintain awareness of current technology assets, and the applicability and capability of each

Lead executive level communications on strategy and business value themes

Research, recommend, and implement new technologies and use cases to maximize Splunk performance & value

Examine, test, and install Splunk technical apps and add-ons

Optimize search process language queries and coach Splunk best practices to end users

Provide internal consultation services for internal application and security teams

Years of Experience: 9.00 Years of Experience