Splunk Engineer / Admin

24 Jun 2024

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Splunk Engineer / Admin

Irvine, CA

Long Term Contract

Job ID 2022-7451 Solugenix is assisting a client, a prestigious and large investment management company in their search for a

Splunk Engineer / Admin. This is a Long-Term opportunity based out of Irvine, CA. Provide overall engineering and design support for a very large, distributed state of the art Splunk environment. The Splunk Engineer/Admin would be responsible for enhancing the architecture, performance tuning, and Operational support in prod and non-prod environments. The candidate should be familiar with recognizing and onboarding new applications into Splunk, performing trend analysis, building dashboards, and making recommendations.

Qualifications:
  • Overall, 4-8 years’ of experience.
  • 3 years of experience in Managing, Designing, and Configuring Splunk environments.
  • 3 years of experience in Unix environment including Administration, Scripting, or Supporting applications.
  • Experience in managing a large distributed Splunk environment consisting of Search heads, Indexers, Cluster masters, Deployers, Deployment Servers, and Heavy/Universal forwarders.
  • Experience in Syslog, Splunk HTTP Event Collection (HEC), and Windows Event Collection Services.
  • Experience in Developing Splunk Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, Visualizations, and Optimize searches.
  • Experience in Log parsing, lookups, calculated fields, extractions using regex.
  • Experience with one or more of the Splunk applications like DBConnect, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, and Kafka.
  • Experience in Splunk ITSI Module and Phantom will be added advantage.
  • Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security Premium Application.
  • Experience in requirement gathering and documentation.
  • Experience in automation with programming languages like Python, JAVA, .Net, XML, and HTML.
  • Knowledge and Experience in GIT, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Ansible, Chef, JIRA.
  • Familiarity with network topology, UDP, TCP, Proxys, Firewalls, Routers, and Switches.
  • Familiarity with Phantom, Cloud computing, Web Interfaces, Databases, and Big Data technologies (like Hadoop, Kafka, etc.).
  • Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration.
  • Experience in coordinating with offshore support teams/virtual teams.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Nice to have experience in Security information and event management (SIEM).
  • Nice to have experience with RTIR.

Education & Certifications:
  • Splunk Admin Certification is added advantage.
  • A major plus is to have Certifications in CISSP, Python, Java, .Net, Ansible /Redhat.
  • 4-year degree in Computer Science.

Responsibilities:
  • Develop distributed Splunk applications, including requirement gathering, coordinating Splunk setup.
  • Support, maintain and expand Splunk infrastructure to meet future architecture design and deployment requirements.
  • Perform basic and advanced scripting tasks with Splunk to automate repeatable processes using Python.
  • Design, implement and optimize Splunk applications (to include Enterprise Security), queries, knowledge objects, and data models.
  • Develop new dashboards, searches, and alerts to enhance Enterprise Security use cases.
  • Deploy Best Practices for developing Splunk Apps and create conceptual architecture for a continuous improvement initiative.
  • Provide Impact assessment for migration efforts.
  • Support Performance Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
  • Design and implement Custom Searches and reports.
  • Build PoCs 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.
  • Mentor and train other System Engineers both onshore and offshore.

About the ClientOur client is an American financial services company. It ranks among the world’s oldest and largest investment management organizations. They have offices globally.

About SolugenixFor over 50 years, Solugenix has been a global technology development and services firm with locations in California, Arizona, India, and the Dominican Republic. As a pioneer in Professional Staffing and IT Consulting, we have partnered with some of the biggest global corporations across many industries. Our history was built on a foundation of partnerships with global brands like McDonald’s, Microsoft, CIT Group, Johnson & Johnson, Herbalife, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and many others who look to Solugenix to be their trusted partner in providing professional staffing, non-IT, and IT solutions.We live our core values in everything that we do, starting with “doing the right thing” for our employees/contractors and “committing to client success.” This is a big part of how we continue to make lists like “2019 Forbes Small Giants”. We also forge strategic partnerships with vendors and corp-to-corp candidates (C2C) that share our core values and encourage you to partner with us.In addition to generating ground-breaking, industry-defining solutions for our clients and our own projects, we partner with clients with whom we share core values and a common professional culture to help them find talent for their valuable opportunities. At Solugenix, we invest in the personal development and growth of every individual. While this is a position with one of our esteemed clients, Solugenix will continue to invest in your personal growth and development, providing you with a successful career as well as ensuring client success.

  • ID: #43589629
  • State: California Irvine 92602 Irvine USA
  • City: Irvine
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2022-06-24
  • Deadline: 2022-08-02
  • Category: Et cetera