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Sr splunk admin Tampa dallas
Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 6 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Pay rate : $70 per hour Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No
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Position Summary and Principal Responsibilities:
This role will be in Splunk Engineering team and will primarily be focused on supporting Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, ITSI and Observability.
• Working on engineering and development focused projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
• Providing technical and operational support for our customer base as well as other technical areas within the company that utilize our tools
• Risk management functions such as reconciliation of vulnerabilities, security baselines as well as other risk and audit related objectives
• Administrative functions for our tools such as keeping the tool documentation current and handling service requests
• 24x7 on-call L3 support on a rotational schedule with other team members
• Participate in user training to increase awareness of Splunk
• Ensuring incident, problem and change tickets are addressed in a timely fashion, as well as escalating technical and managerial issues
• Following ITIL process for incident, change and problem resolution
Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills
• Self-starter, continually striving to improve the teams service offerings and one’s own skillset
• Must have a problem-solving and innovative mindset to meet a wide variety of challenges
• Willingness and ability to learn all aspects of our operating model as well as new tools
• Ability to meet deadlines, goals and objectives
• Moderate to advanced competency of Windows and Unix-like operating system principles (power user functions)
• Developed competencies around essential project management, communication (oral, written) and personal effectiveness
• Working experience covering Microsoft Office tools such as Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project
• Good SQL skills and good knowledge of relational databases
• Experience developing and interfacing with REST APIs
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking fundamentals
• Good knowledge of engineering, configuring, deploying and supporting Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, ITSI and Observability
• Ability to create and optimize Big Data correlations as a Splunk search language (SPL) proficient
• Optimize/Tune logging source streams
• Develop Splunk reports to meet requirements of key stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of Amazon AWS products and services such as EC2, BeanStalk, Lambda, VPC, Route 53, Amazon FW, API Gateway, ELB, CloudTrail, and CloudFront.
• Working knowledge of Azure
Experience
• Minimum of six (6) years of related Splunk work experience is a must.
• Preference to have expertise in ITSI.
• Programming experience is nice to have (Python, Shell, JavaScript)
• 6+ years’ experience of Splunk engineering/support in a production environment. This includes all phases of lifecycle management: planning, design, deployment, upkeep and retirement
• Should have a developed competency with Splunk in a production environment
• Integration with cloud related applications such as AWS, Azure, Zoom, Thousand Eyes
Education, Training and/or Certifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a technical discipline
• Certification in Splunk products is a plus
jonathan AT executivestaffrecruiters DOT com
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