Sr. Splunk Engineer

Role: Sr. Splunk Engineer

Location: (Dallas, TX/Tampa, FL)

Duration: Contract (12+ months)

C2C

8+ Years

Job Description:

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a technical discipline.
• Certification in any of the listed tools a plus