Splunk Architect / MUST Have a Secret Clearance

Job Description

Splunk Architect

Job description:

· Ability to fulfill Splunk admin role as well as architect.

· Fully design and architect a Splunk enterprise environment.

· Experience with multi-site clustering Architecture and deployment.

· Experience designing multi-site clustering.

· Experience and knowledge of Splunk validated designs.

· Experience with large Splunk deployments 30+TB.

· Experience with on-prem and cloud architectures.

· Experience with ingest vs SVC vs forecasting (predictive) licensing.

· Understanding SVC cloud models.

· Firm understanding of search, indexer and forwarding tiers.

· Working knowledge of smartstore vs. traditional frameworks.

· Working knowledge of architecting Splunk for performance.

· Understanding Splunk cloud SaaS vs hybrid models.

· Experience with maximizing traffic flows to Splunk on-prem and cloud.

· Ability to create custom parsers.

· Working knowledge of Splunk knowledge objects.

· Ability to deploy HA for Cluster Managers and indexer clusters.

· Ability to deploy HA for Deployment Servers.

· Experience with Search head clustering.

· Understanding of site0.

· Understanding of search affinity.

· Understanding of cluster management.

· Understanding of SF/RF, single and multisite.

· Ability to follow through on projects.

Value add:

· ES and ITSI experience.

· Scripting experience.

· Large enterprise deployments.

· Willing to travel.

· Willing work on a team.

· Leadership and extreme ownership skills when taking on a project.

· Documentation and capacity planning skills.

· Splunk architect certification.

· Security background.

· Understanding of cloud computing concepts.

· Understanding of observability.

Qualifications:

· 8+ years’ experience with deploying large enterprise Splunk architectures.

· Experience with planning large Splunk deployments.

· Experience with documenting large Splunk deployments.

· Experience with designing and architecting large Splunk deployments.

· Good oral and written skills.

· Good presentation skills.

Full-time