Senior Splunk Systems Engineer

Colorado  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Our Fortune 500 client located in Colorado Springs is looking for a Splunk Engineer to support the Splunk infrastructure and applications adopting the frameworks. This position sits on the Enterprise Monitoring Team whose vision is to provide best in class monitoring capabilities/services to improve the maturity of performance, availability and capacity planning processes for both the application and infrastructure areas.

Day to day focus will be on:

Working on projects to enhance the environment to support all applications,
Rollout functionality to all applications (multi-year effort)
Supporting the environment on a daily basis troubleshooting, small requests for change, trend analysis on performance

Key Responsibilities will include:

Splunk search and reporting - onboarding data into Splunk
Learn and champion new technologies and new versions of best-of-breed industry products.
Analyze and troubleshoot deployment or systemic issues with enterprise software applications.
Develop and share best practices on installing, configuring and maintaining software applications.
Document and publish findings and recommendations.
Advocate adoption of best practices during customizations, integrations and other implementation activities

Come join an industry leader with a large/cutting edge IT shop and great working environment. Apply today!

Required:
Splunk data onboarding experience in large enterprise company
Splunk dashboards
Splunk Admin certification is a plus
Solid understanding of Application and Infrastructure Performance Management
Knowledge of infrastructure components and their key performance metrics
Internet Information Services (HTTP, SSL)
Previous experience with large software implementations in a Windows environment
Ability to adapt quickly and learn new skills.
Shows initiative and works with a sense of urgency.
Ability to maintain an enterprise level perspective while understanding how all system level components interact.
Advanced technical troubleshooting, diagnosing and problem solving skills
Analyzes data from various sources to determine next steps

Plusses:
VMWare VSphere 5.x or higher
Powershell
App Dynamics
In-depth knowledge of vendor software integration and interaction patterns
Experience with multi-platform applications (Mainframe and distributed)
Experience with Linux Infrastructure is a plus
Experience with BMC Patrol is a plus 
We will call qualified candidates after review.
Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval. 
REFERRALS WANTED - $1000 REWARD!
Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will give you $1000 if we find a job for that person!
(The fine print: The referred candidate must be previously unknown to us. Start date must be within 6 months of referral.)
Overtime: straight time

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
Precision System Design, Inc.
Published at
11.08.2018
Project ID:
1613602
Contract type
Freelance
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