Senior splunk admin tampa dallas

Job Description

Senior splunk admin tampa dallas

Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 6 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Pay rate : $70 per hour Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No

This role is Contract to Hire. Please refer to the Job Insights Section to view the MUST HAVE'S for this role.

Position Summary and Principal Responsibilities:

This role will be in Splunk Engineering team and will primarily be focused on supporting Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise, ITSI and Observability.

• Working on engineering and development focused projects from start to finish with minimal supervision

• Providing technical and operational support for our customer base as well as other technical areas within the company that utilize our tools

• Risk management functions such as reconciliation of vulnerabilities, security baselines as well as other risk and audit related objectives

• Administrative functions for our tools such as keeping the tool documentation current and handling service requests

• 24x7 on-call L3 support on a rotational schedule with other team members

• Participate in user training to increase awareness of Splunk

• Ensuring incident, problem and change tickets are addressed in a timely fashion, as well as escalating technical and managerial issues

• Following DTCC’s ITIL process for incident, change and problem resolution

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.

• Working knowledge of Azure

Experience

• Minimum of six (6) years of related Splunk work experience is a must.

• Preference to have expertise in ITSI.

• Programming experience is nice to have (Python, Shell, JavaScript)

• 6+ 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

• Integration with cloud related applications such as AWS, Azure, Zoom, Thousand Eyes

Education, Training and/or Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a technical discipline

• Certification in Splunk products is a plus

Skills