[Hiring] AWS Splunk Administrator @Software Technology

Role Description

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Work on advanced Splunk administration, and development efforts, with a goal towards enhancing/building out the Splunk infrastructure as it relates to application/machine logs, troubleshooting, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration.
• Support, maintain, and expand Splunk infrastructure in a highly resilient configuration.
• Standardized Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of platforms.
• Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues.
• Support Splunk developers and users in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Available for escalations and support operations for Splunk.
• Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms.
• Automate processes and procedures where applicable.
• Research, design, evaluate, recommend and support major hardware and software enhancements.
• Design, code and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of relevant experience.
• Good Scripting experience in Python.
• Core Splunk Knowledge.
• Experience deploying apps within Splunk and administrating the Splunk platform.
• Experience with data normalization and data modeling within the Splunk environment.
• Experience in creating and managing Splunk DB connects Identities, Database connections, Database inputs, outputs, lookups, access controls, custom alerts, custom operations.
• Strong Understanding of Splunk platform configuration, Web UI, and Common Information Model.
• Basic Understanding of regular expression.
• Experience in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and ability to customize queries to do advanced searching.
• Experience in performing DevOps activities.
• Experience managing objects (fields, extractions, tags, event types, lookups, workflow actions, aliases, macros, and so on).
• Experience in data onboarding/heavy Forwarders/Universal Forwarded.
• 2 years of Experience with Splunk Enterprise on AWS is required.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.
• Onboarding of data including but not limited to:
  • AWS Data
  • Syslog Data sources
  • HTTP Event Collector
• Administration of Splunk environment Troubleshooting parsing issues.
• Troubleshooting indexer errors.
• Configuration of outputs.conf.
• SSL Certificates for outputs.conf.

Desired Skillset

• AWS Splunk Enterprise Security, Data Models.
• Troubleshoot issues and platform stabilization.
• Migration to cloud.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relevant field of study.

Skills

• DevOps.
• Python.
• Splunk.
• Unix.
• Linux.