Job Description
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related specialized field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Specialized certification may be required. Typically possesses nine or more years experience in the field performing complex analysis, consulting and providing recommendations. Ability to perform in-depth analysis of the highest-level technical issues. In-depth experience designing and implementing information solutions. Ability to ensure that system improvements are successfully implemented. Ability to provide technical engineering and/or architectural guidance on an as-needed basis. Responsibilities Directs, leads, and coordinates activities of projects to ensure established milestones are accomplished in accordance with client business objectives. Develops project budgets and uses the business case to justify/request project budget and provides input to planning budget, security, configuration management, and problem management processes. Monitors staff and contractor efforts and use of resources to ensure effective and efficient expenditures and attainment of project goals and designs or conducts analytical studies, cost benefit analysis, and other research, and reports on milestones and budget.Determines and secures all resources required to plan, analyze, develop, and implement the assigned project. Assembles a team of technical experts and acquires resources including corporate and vendor IT services, equipment, and other necessary items and coordinates resources across organizational elements if necessary. Defines project Product, requirements, and deliverables during the phase of all project management, makes improvements and takes action to mitigate the problems.Assesses and mitigates risks throughout the project; develops the product release plan coordinates implementation of the final product; coordinates the quality assurance processes; develops and manages project documentation requirements or procedures; directs project status meetings, phases, milestones, and final project review.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload:
dentify gaps and areas of duplication; provides recommendations for optimization
Manage and maintain a complex multi-site hybrid environment and ensures the infrastructure remains available and scalable.
Provide technical expertise in the maintenance and expansion of IT architecture to support business needs such as software additions, large-scale data stores and cloud -based systems
Ensure Splunk is monitored, and effective alerting is in place to meet SLAs and required visibility
Manage upgrades and patching of platform to ensure endpoints identified vulnerabilities are mitigated or brought to resolution
Ensure the logging environment provides for effective threat detection and response in direct partnership with information security teams
Participate in incident management & incident response during an outage or a breach when needed
Interact with internal/external customers to gather requirements, perform troubleshooting and aid with the creation of Splunk search queries.
Diagnose, solve, and implement needed solutions for a complex environment.
Create documentation for any addition or change to the environment. Reviews and updates on a regular basis to ensure accuracy.
Ensure the security tools are supporting all compliance efforts in collaboration with auditors
Provide metrics for platform performance, capacity, and user management
Assist with compliance requests as needed
Collaborate with the Security team in security incident resolution and risk evaluations
Set and support best practices for end users and company standards.
Stay current on the latest industry technologies, trends, and strategies
Support the companys commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.
Required Skills/Attributes:
Two (2) or more years experience in progressive Splunk administration including data on-boarding, normalizing and CIM compliance, Splunk architecture and log on-boarding experience in a multisite environment.
Solid Linux and Windows foundation with an emphasis of Unix/Linux CLI.
Possess a competence in Linux to troubleshoot various aspects of the integration including operating system, application, and networking components as they relate to both Splunk and syslog implementations.
Desired Skills/Attributes:
Two (2) or more years experience in progressive Splunk administration including data on-boarding, normalizing and CIM compliance, Splunk architecture and log on-boarding experience in a multisite environment.
Solid Linux and Windows foundation with an emphasis of Unix/Linux CLI.
Possess a competence in Linux to troubleshoot various aspects of the integration including operating system, application, and networking components as they relate to both Splunk and syslog implementations.