Splunk Administrator

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - Splunk

Location:Remote - EST timezone

Duration: 6months (possibility to extend)

Job Description

This role will join the monitoring and logging team in the developer and enablement area in IT. They will assist with completing the maintenance of Splunk and other monitoring tools. Hard skills will be experienced in Splunk Administration (must have), and Ansible. Splunk experience must have administration experience with Splunk. Application knowledge of Splunk is necessary to complete search indexes.

Responsibilities:

Work on a highly scalable and available centralized logging platform (MLS-P) comprised of Splunk and other platforms.

Work extensively on automation of distributed clusters, data pipelines, application onboarding, etc. the following Infrastructure as code (IaC) principles.

Contribute to deliverables as an SME in Splunk platform

Develop, integrate, and automate platform modules/workflows

Triage and work on highly complex issues with broad technical or strategic implications with Splunk

Drive issue resolution and root cause analysis and report communications back to stakeholders

Document and train others on processes, best practices, and tooling

Coordinate with project management for the completion of stories in the Agile methodology

Translate backlog items into engineering design and logical units of work or tasks

Nice to Have skills:

Power-user of Linux environment, and strong scripting skills in Python

Knowledge of automation tools like Ansible