Description
Contract Assignment: Senior SPLUNK Engineer
Location: Remote (UK-based)
Duration: 8 weeks
Rate: Negotiable (inside IR35 Scope)
Start Date: August 2020
Overview
Design, test and deploy of Splunk dashboards to provide enterprise monitoring for an enterprise chat application and supporting infrastructure. Working on a large Investment Banking assignment.
Scope
- Work as a Senior Splunk Engineer in conjunction with a Senior Technical PM
- Core activities including but not limited to: data validation, dashboard design, metric definition, release planning and implementation
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Analysis of current Splunk deployment for monitoring a chat application, including data gathering and dashboard representation
- Validation of data within Splunk in-line with metric requirements for new dashboards
- Dashboard design based on the validated requirements
- Documentation of the dashboard design including metric details and operational runbooks
- Implement dashboards into test and production environments
- Collaboration with Splunk Operations and Service Owner teams throughout the project life cycle
REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive experience working with Splunk in an engineering project capacity
- Must have relevant Splunk engineering experience in a Global Financial organization
- Splunk Certification preferable
- Must have excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
- Experience in search, deployment and development, such as:
- Data normalisation (CIM)
- Building a series of interconnected dashboards/an entire app
- Transactions, and other complex search patterns/results
- Report acceleration, summary indexing, tstats, etc.
- Splunk reports/data outside of Splunk and into other tools
- Data input filtering with regex/configs
- Use of deployment server to maintain apps on SH/indexers (outside of clustering), surgical DS reloading, etc.
- Editing simple XML and using simple XML extensions
- Integration experience with key management platforms (eg AD/LDAP, SSO, etc.)
- Rigorous attention to detail, strong organisational skills and able to work to tight deadlines
- Confident working both independently and collaboratively across internal, external and hybrid teams
- Proactive and passionate mindset with an inquisitive nature to understand the customer's environment in an approachable manner
- Familiarity with working in an Agile manner (eg Sprints, daily stand-ups, etc.)
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