Splunk Engineer
Dallas, TX

Job Description

Overview

The candidate needs to have experience designing, developing, and deploying Splunk based solutions in both on premise and cloud-based environments. This person will help design and implement multiple Splunk projects to enhance our log analytics, visualization and analysis initiative which includes a strong emphasis on security.

Responsibilities

* Work with senior leadership to develop and enhance our log analytics, visualization, and analysis initiative.
* Develop and document future state.
* Help build a collaborative culture through delivery of functionality in a DevOps model.
* Be a leader and expert on Splunk practices and components
* Be an evangelist of Splunk in the company
* Lead, teach and develop Splunk talent throughout the organization.
* Design and implement Splunk maintenance and operation standards.
* Scope and implement Splunk projects from start-to-finish, including but not limited to:
* Gathering requirements
* Data ingestion (forwarders, API calls, DB queries, modular inputs)
* Mapping data fields to CIM
* Dashboard Creation and iteration



Required Skills

* Splunk engineer with overall 3-5 years of overall experience Hands- on expertise with large scale Logging.
* Knowledge of IT infrastructure and how components correlate ( servers (windows and Linux), databases, storage arrays, networking equipment, Active directory, etc.)
* Ability to demonstrate depth of knowledge and experience in Enterprise Security is a must
* Ability to support the administration of the current Splunk environment
* Perform routine maintenance and facilitate customizations and changes to the Splunk environment
* Familiarization with all components of a distributed Splunk environment (search head and index clusters, deployment servers, forwarders, management consoles)
* Creation and maintenance of alerts, saved searches, and other knowledge objects
* Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements across Cloud infrastructure.
* Excellent problem solving, planning and organizing skills.
* Experience using Splunk to monitor a public cloud (Azure)
* Python programming language for creation of modular inputs
* Prepares and maintains systems and application support documentation and schematics. Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.

Desired Skills

* Experience with ITSI
* LI-AD1

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