Job Title: Splunk Engineer/Administrator

Location: San Antonio, TX / Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Duration: Long Term (12+ months)

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of overall IT experience.
• 3+ years’ experience in managing, designing, configuring Splunk environment (both on-prem and cloud)
• 3+ years’ experience in 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, 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 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, and 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 conceptual architecture for continuous improvement initiative.
• Provide 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 Impact assessment for migration efforts and coordinate migration activities .

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Security information and event management (SIEM).
• Experience with RTIR.
• Certifications in Splunk, CISSP or similar.