Splunk Platform Engineer

CZ  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Splunk Platform Engineer - Home Based

Certifications Required:

  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect

Job Description:

As a Splunk Platform Support Engineer, You Will:

  • Work closely with onboarding teams and security team ensuring technical Issues and projects are correctly logged and managed to the correct priority.
  • Regularly carry monitoring of the platform and creating alerts when there is a platform issue
  • Make sure correct and relevant app get deployed to the correct place
  • Fix whatever platform related issues independently
  • Make sure the platform is stable and avoiding any downtime.
  • Be able to help security team to update knowledge objects, eg Lookups, Macros, Fieldalias etc.
  • Deal with every alert and triage them
  • Be responsible for continuous improvement, continuous delivery and continuous integration.
  • You will need fully understand Splunk Data Model and be able to fix its related issues
  • Regularly carry monitoring detect log source outages and working with on-boarding team to get them resolved
  • Occasionally need to work at the weekend when there is a patching or platform maintenance work

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Ability to prioritise workload including Incidents and Problems.
  • At least 5 years of general work experience with Splunk Architect or higher
  • Strong understanding of all Splunk architecture components to include search head clustering, indexer clustering, deployment server and monitoring console.
  • Strong understanding of configuration files and relationship between GUI configuration and Back End configuration file impact
  • Strong understanding of SPL as well as the ability to develop automated search and apps using Python or bash/Shell Scripting
  • Linux system administration skills, preferably Centos Or RHEL.
  • An understanding of error messages and logs displayed by software.
  • Calm and logical approach during a critical event.
  • Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and solve issues independently.
  • Self-learner, ability to document learning as experience is gained.
  • Experience as part of a team supporting and maintaining an infrastructure.
  • A Passion for technology.
  • Understanding of network protocols/services and network infrastructures.
  • Strong technical troubleshooting and analytical skills.
  • Configuration management.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of platform and application automated deployment and version control software eg (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git, Bitbucket, Subversion) within a physical environment.

Capita IT Resourcing is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Capita Resourcing IT
Published at
09.04.2020
Project ID:
1918662
Contract type
Freelance
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