Job Description :
Description
Splunk Engineers will be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and operations of the Splunk tool and the development of user content (e.g. rules, reports, and basic connector configuration
Minimum education requirements:
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other relevant technical discipline.
Vendor certification and/or training is expected but not required in cases of established experience.
Provide day-to-day support for a large Splunk implementation (multi terabytes per day log volume)
Ensure Splunk infrastructure is up and running and performing with maximum efficiency 24x7
Be on-call to respond to any Splunk related issues and resolve/escalate
Work with Application teams (the users of Splunk) to resolve issues
Develop monitoring to ensure Splunk infrastructure health (Disk usage, CPU/Memory usage, Performance)
Develop reports on Splunk usage to share with team and upper management
Install and maintain Splunk Universal forwarder on Application/Web/DB servers
Perform upgrades and patch installs of Splunk infrastructure
Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On''s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management
Create and Manage Splunk DB connects Identities, Database Connections, Database Inputs, Outputs, lookups, access controls.
Identify opportunities for Application teams to add Splunk Knowledge Objects
Ensure Splunk Universal Forwarder is up and running on all the identified Application/Web/DB Servers
Candidates will possess:
4 + years of experience in Splunk for log aggregation
3 + years of experience Administering Unix/Linux and/or Windows
Shell scripting and/or Programming skills
Experience with Agile methodology
Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Support experience in a large, global enterprise environment
Splunk Architecture certification desired