Splunk Security Engineer

Job Title: Splunk Security Engineer
Job Location: Mechelen, Belgium
Job Type: Contract
Job Description

• The Splunk Engineer should have demonstrated experience with installation, configuring data inputs and forwarders, data management, user accounts, licenses, and troubleshooting and monitoring.
• In particular, a successful applicant must understand and demonstrate the knowledge, best practices, and configuration details for Splunk administration in a medium to large distributed deployment environment.
• The administrator must be familiar with installation, configuration, and management of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security. This includes knowledge with event processing and normalization, deployment requirements, technology add-ons, its settings, and recommended customizations.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain a Splunk log collection solution
• Develop and customize Splunk using its XML templates for advanced configuration and macros
• Build Splunk dashboards with search forms, views, packaging and distribution
• Create Customized Splunk queries using Splunk query language and Splunk Advanced Search
• Assist SOC analysts with forensic investigations
• Finetune correlation rules

Required Skills

• Hands on experience with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk App for Enterprise Security
• Experience with Splunk in an Infrastructure Environment (security, IT operations)
• Comprehensive experience with the Splunk tool (search terms, ability to do correlation between data sets, data indexing)
• Able to develop customized Splunk Apps and dashboards
• Sound knowledge of Splunk query language
• Development and Splunk Administration experience
• A broad base of knowledge across multiple areas of IT
• Familiarity working with large-scale distributed software systems
• Understanding of system administration and operations in Linux, Unix, Windows
• Knowledge of Splunk advanced search, Splunk Universal Forwarder and Splunk Distributed Management Console

Our Client Provides opportunity of better performance, Reliability, Security, and Flexibility with good Bonus and Benefits Structure and have a good work Culture that everyone loves to work with.
Avance Consulting is a global talent acquisition and executive search company. We work exclusively with some of the most reputed and admired clients across various sectors and geographies.
This is a very urgent role. Apply NOW with your updated resume in Word format. All selected profiles will be contacted within 1 day of application receipt. 
Best Regards, Swathi Konakanchi Senior IT Recruiter (see below)