Sr Splunk Engineer
New York, NY

Job Description

Company Overview

At Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), we're not only changing the way we treat cancer, but also the way the world thinks about it. By working together and pushing forward with innovation and discovery, we're driving excellence and improving outcomes. For the 28th year, MSK has been named a top hospital for cancer by U.S. News & World Report. We are proud to be on Becker's Healthcare list as one of the 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare in 2018, as well as one of Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Best Place to Work for 2018. We're treating cancer, one patient at a time. Join us and make a difference every day.

Job Description

Want to Splunk it up, want to work with an experienced Splunk team in a leading edge healthcare environment?

We are seeking a Sr. Splunk Engineer to join our growing team in the Information Services Department. Here at MSKCC, you can learn, find yourself technically challenged, never be bored, get recognized, and can be part of a dynamic crew that will produce results that will transform patient care.

You have the opportunity to collaborate with teams from Neurology, Pathology, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Critical Care - just to name a few in creating applications in Splunk that make a difference!

If you want to really see what Splunk can do, give us an opportunity to speak to with you.

You will:

* Be responsible in helping maintain our different Splunk Environments.
* Troubleshoot and optimize all aspects of Splunk, including the Splunk search head and indexer clusters, index storage monitoring, and SPL performance tuning.
* Help manage upgrades, migrations, security, system health and infrastructure analytics.
* Perform Splunk development duties by assisting in Development of Splunk Dashboards for strategic projects by working with clinical and non-clinical staff.
* Will work with other Splunk Administrators and Architects to support other teams from within the clinical Splunk environment.
* Maintain and implement enterprise monitoring and alerting utilizing Splunk and organizationally defined best practices.
* Assist in creation and maintenance of Splunk knowledge objects for use throughout the organization.
* Manage security of users and roles including assisting users in the on-boarding process.
* Participate in the 24x7 on-call rotation schedule, when ready, in order to support the clinical staff in the enterprise.

You are:

* A self-starter who wants to enhance their knowledge of new technologies and grow with a leading, world renowned cancer center.
* An excellent communicator and team player.

You have:

* A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Programming, MIS, or a related field with 2-4 years of experience with Splunk
* Current Splunk Admin Certification.
* Strong understanding of Splunk SPL.
* Experience working with Linux-based Splunk environments.
* Experience performing scripted Splunk installations including universal forwarder/heavy forwarder deployment.
* Basic Regular Expression skills/knowledge.
* Some knowledge of DBMS' such as SQL Server, Oracle and NoSQL is also helpful.

Nice to have/bonus:

* Programming/concept knowledge including Java, Python, .net, .net core, html, REST.
* Hadoop skills, include understanding the Hadoop HDP stack (i.e. HDFS, Hive, HBase, Storm, PIG, etc.).

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