Splunk Contractor V

 LeadStack Inc. is an award-winning, one of the nation's fastest-growing, certified minority-owned (MBE) staffing services provider of contingent workforce. As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we're proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world.
 
Title:        Splunk Engineer 
Location: Bellevue, WA (Remote work)
Duration: 8 months contract
Hourly Rate:  $90-100/hr 
 
Must have skills:

• B.A/B.Sc. in Computer Science/Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience.
• System administration experience and cluster administration experience on large-scale Splunk instance.
• Proficient in scripting languages such as linux shell or python.
• Extensive Experience with AWS.
• Experience in terraform, ansible, and Spinnaker.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining the availability SLA of the Splunk instance.
• Creating, modifying and deploying Splunk apps to facilitate security log processing.
• Monitoring the resource usage and the capacity of the Splunk instance closely can collaborate with the MonC team to scale up/down the cluster when necessary.
• Provide technical support and answer questions from Splunk users.
• Work with customers and support to resolve bugs and support issues. Commitment and emphasis on operational excellence.
• Create Splunk dashboards and reports.
• Optimize Splunk queries.
• Handle incidents outside of office hours.

Required Skills/Experience

• B.A/B.Sc. in Computer Science/Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience.
• System administration experience and cluster administration experience on large-scale Splunk instance.
• Proficient in scripting languages such as linux shell or python.
• Extensive Experience with AWS.
• Experience in terraform, ansible, and Spinnaker.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
   

Desired Skills/Experience

• Knowledge in security concepts: authentication/authorization frameworks (e.g., SSO, SAML, Oauth), secure transport (e.g., SSL, TLS), identity management (e.g., certificates, PKI)
   

To know more about current opportunities at LeadStack, please visit us at https://leadstackinc.com/careers/
Should you have any questions, feel free to call me on or send an email on akhil.dhingra@leadstackinc.com or 415 873 3646.
Best Regards,
Akhil Dhingra