McLean, VA Contract Sep 4, 2024
Splunk Administration -
- Work towards onboarding data into Splunk utilizing multiple ingestion methods (UF, API, HTTPs, etc.)
- Work on advanced Splunk administration, and development efforts, with a goal towards enhancing/building out the Splunk infrastructure as it relates to application/machine logs, troubleshooting, reporting, custom queries, dashboards, and security roles administration.
- Support, maintain, and expand Splunk infrastructure in a highly resilient configuration
- Standardized Splunk agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of platforms
- Troubleshoot Splunk server and agent problems and issues
- Support Splunk developers and users in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards
- Available for escalations and support operations for Splunk
- Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
- Support Splunk on Unix, Linux and Windows-based platforms
- Automate processes and procedures where applicable
- Research, design, evaluate, recommend and support major hardware and software enhancements
- Design, code and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
- Performs other duties as required or assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with Splunk development/administration, installation, configuration, clustering, monitoring, query design, dashboard design
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with UNIX/Linux administration/engineering
- Experience with scripting (Perl, shell, etc.)
- Experience with integration/web technologies (use SDKs, REST, JSON, XML, etc)
- Experience developing/delivering presentations to management and stakeholders
- Experience in SPLUNK, Compuware dynaTrace, UEM, APMaas (Gomez), Foglight and ELK ASP.Net, C#, XML, HTML, JAVA Script, CSS, SQL and Python scripting
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise on AWS
- Experience with Splunk Cloud
