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SPLUNK ENGINEER

Verotis is seeking an experienced Splunk Engineer who will be responsible for the architecture, installation, administration, and development of Splunk log parsing and alert monitoring, with a goal toward enhancing infrastructure as it relates to application and server data, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration. In addition to log analytics, you will help administrate a variety of other platforms within the client enterprise management suite.

Physical Requirements:

Qualified candidates will need to have the ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs., be able to move/traverse throughout work facility, and communicate frequently with co-workers.

Functional Responsibilities:

The candidate may perform any or all of the following:

  • Architect, design, support, and maintain Splunk infrastructure for a highly available and disaster recovery configuration

  • Administer Splunk and Splunk Application for Enterprise Security (ES) log management

  • Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms

  • Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues

  • Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards

  • Mentor users and other groups on their use of Splunk

  • Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization

  • Design core systems performance and troubleshooting logs

  • Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms

  • Perform data mining and analysis, utilizing various queries and reporting methods

  • Solve complex Integration challenges and debug complex configuration issues

  • Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as architecture diagrams, technical designs, and SOPs

Qualifications: 

  • Top Secret clearance

  • Bachelor’s Degree, or an equivalent combination of formal education, and experience

  • Minimum of six (6) years of general work experience and three (2) years of relevant experience in functional responsibility. 

  • Splunk experience – minimum 2 years of experience architecting, configuring, deploying, and customizing the tool.

  • Strong understanding of Splunk configuration files and architecture

  • Knowledge of advanced search and reporting commands

  • Demonstrated ability to create complex dashboards, forms, and visualizations

  • Understanding of System Log Files and other structured and non-structured data

  • Intermediate level understanding of Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems

  • Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms

  • Splunk Architect or Splunk Administrator certification preferred

  • Knowledge of a scripting language and UNIX command line

  • Strong knowledge of application monitoring and event management

  • Knowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM), Understand the relationship between the CIM and knowledge objects, ability to create a lookup file and create a lookup definition& field aliases and calculated fields

  • Understanding of Splunk license management preferred

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