Splunk Specialist

Job Type: Permanent
Posted: over 2 years ago
Contact: Sue Templeton
Discipline:
Reference: 240260_1634606815
  • Experience in configuring, implementing, analysing and supporting Splunk server infrastructure across Windows, UNIX and Linux.
  • Implement Splunk solutions in highly available, redundant, distributed computing environments
  • Assist in developing recommended improvements to Splunk infrastructure engineering requirements and specifications.
  • Provide overall engineering and design support for a distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles.
  • Support the full system engineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, integration, test, documentation, and implementation following defined best practices and operational workflow
  • Familiar with recognizing and onboarding new data sources into Splunk, analysing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data.
  • Ability to support Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps.
  • Work with other Infrastructure, Application, and Cybersecurity Engineering team members and will be required to interact with end users to gather requirements, perform troubleshooting, and provide assistance with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards.
  • Will interact with senior management, as necessary.
  • Capable of working independently or as a team member to solve infrastructure, application, and cybersecurity engineering problems
  • Perform criticality, mission impact, and risk analysis of recommended tools
  • Support the development of presentations and reports to document findings, and will require good communication and interpersonal skills to convey findings in a tactful manner and at the technical proficiency of the audience.

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