Splunk Technical Expert

Brussels  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Splunk Technical Expert

Responsibilities:

In your role you will be responsible for the analysis, design, implementation and operation of business IT requests on the Splunk platform.

Specifically:
Platform Engineering

  • Maintain solution architecture in line with business requirements and suggest improvements.
  • Assistance in the development & management of Use Case and Content.
  • Maintain technical and user manuals up-to-date.
  • Lead the effort and work towards improving the existing process and procedures required for security monitoring operations.

Platform Maintenance

  • Define and execute life cycle management of the deployed solutions, qualifying new releases and patches and planning/documenting upgrades, new systems, as well as maintaining current operational event flows. Provide optimization of connector interfaces, aggregation, and data normalization.
  • Availability Management: realize availability requirements, compile availability plans, monitor availability, and monitor maintenance obligations;
  • Capacity Management: manage system capacity, and component (or tactical) capacity
  • Change Management: ensure that standardized methods and procedures are used for efficient handling of all changes
  • Asset & Configuration Management: manage and trace every aspect of a configuration (CIs) from beginning to end.
  • Release Management: ensure the availability of licensed, tested, and version-certified software and hardware.
  • Incident Management: The primary objectives are to prevent Incidents from happening, and to minimise the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented

You will Need to demonstrate:
Technical: Solid and proven experience with the following technologies:

  • Splunk Deployment Server
  • Splunk administration through UI including app, report, and dashboard permissions, users and roles, deployment server, managing alerts, summary searches, and report accelerations.
  • Splunk development of critical data-related configuration files like props.conf, inputs.conf, transforms.conf, and indexes.conf
  • Splunk development of dashboards, reports, and alerts
  • Desire for continuous improvement of the Cyber Defence capabilities.
  • Experience utilizing best practices for getting data into Splunk

Business:

  • Knowledge of ITIL based operational processes (Mandatory)
  • Prior experience of working in Agile operating model; (Preferable)
  • Experience within financial industry (Preferable)

Soft Skills:

  • Team player.
  • Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude.
  • Good Communication and Influencing skills.
  • Good analytical and synthesis skills.
  • Autonomy, commitment and perseverance.
  • Outstanding ability to work under stress in emergency situations.
  • Strong intuition and ability to think outside the box .
  • Attention to detail while seeing the bigger picture.
  • Ability to learn on-the-job and knowledge sharing.
  • Solid sense of integrity and identification with the mission.
  • Ability to process large amounts of information.

Language Requirements:

  • French (Good Speaking & writing)
  • Dutch (Good Speaking & writing)
  • English (Fluent speaking & writing)

Education/Professional Certifications:

  • Bachelor/Master's degree or equivalent
  • Splunk Certified Admin

Contract Conditions:

Daily Rate: Competitive/Market Rate

Contract Length: 12 Months + likely-extensions

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Keyworks: Splunk, Splunk Admin, Splunk Administrator, Splunk consultant, security, technical, expert, Change management, asset management, configuration, finance, bank, banking, agile, itil, French, Dutch, anglais, francais, nederlands, néerlandais, engels, cyber security, cyber defense, it security, information security, risks, cyber activity

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months + Extensions
(extension possible)
From
Orcan Intelligence
Published at
09.10.2018
Project ID:
1645425
Contract type
Freelance
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