Senior Splunk Admin

Job Title: Senior Splunk Admin

Location: Tampa, FL or Dallas, TX - Fully Onsite

Duration: 6 Months

Visa: USC,GC

Rate: $65-70/Hr. on W2

Client: DTCC Contingent Labor

Experience required: 6 Years

Key Skills: Splunk, Amazon AWS products and services, Windows and Unix-like operating system principles, Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, ITSI and Observability, Splunk search language (SPL) proficient

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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

MUST HAVE

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

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

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

Developing 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

NICE TO HAVE

Preference to have expertise in ITSI.

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

These are some question that you need to ask candidate.

1.) Describe candidate's background in Integrating splunk with cloud related applications such as AWS, Azure

2.) Describe candidate's background as a Splunk Admin

3.) Describe candidate's experience in configuring, deploying and supporting Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, ITSI and Observability