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Senior Splunk Engineer

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Freelance

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

India

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Self-starter with problem-solving mindset, Advanced knowledge of Splunk and ITSI.

Key responsabilities:

Engineering projects from start to finish
Provide technical support and risk management
Administrative functions for Splunk tools
Participate in user training and incident resolution

APN Consulting Inc. Information Technology & Services SME https://www.apnconsultinginc.com/

201 - 500 Employees

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Job description

Your missions

APN Consulting has an immediate need for a direct client requirement:

Job Title : Senior Splunk Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration : 6/12+ Months

Position Summary and Principal Responsibilities: This role will be in Data Management Department on the Analytics Report & AI & Client Engineering team. The team maintains the firm's reporting and analytics tools and infrastructure, but this position is primarily for working on Splunk tools including Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, ITSI and Observability.

As part of the Analytics Report & AI & Client Engineering team, the candidate is responsible for:

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
Good knowledge in 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.

Experience

Minimum of six (6) years of related Splunk work experience with expertise in ITSI.
Programming experience (Python, Shell, JavaScript)
5+ 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

Education, Training and/or Certifications