AWS Splunk Engineer
Latitude IT
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureCloudLinuxPythonSplunkTerraform
About the role
- Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure.
- Automate the management and enforcement of policies.
- Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk.
- Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns.
- Help maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure.
- Help monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity.
- Maintain cloud network configurations.
- Maintain gold images.
- Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support as needed.
- Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
- Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution.
- Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind to optimize performance, stability, reliability, and agility.
- Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage.
- Responsible for Splunk agent (i.e., Universal Forwarder) deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Support and guide client resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers, and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.
- Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise and cloud data centers.
- Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers.
- Utilize automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical Discipline
- AWS Solution Architect Professional or Azure Architect Expert
- 4 Years of relevant experience in one of the following tools
- Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
- Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring, and using AWS/Azure cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
- Minimum of three (3) years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution such as Splunk
- Multi-Cloud experience in implementing solutions within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with programming with Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, Powershell, AWS or Azure CLI)
- One or more of these Splunk certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin
- Knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging
- A solid understanding of Cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics.
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental
- Paid Vacation & Sick Time
- Paid Federal Holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
- Employer Paid Life Insurance
- Continued Education Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Caregiver Support Program
- Adoption Assistance Program
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Hard skills
SplunkAWSAzureTerraformAnsibleAWS Cloud FormationAzure Resource ManagerSPLPythonPowershell
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationclient support
Certifications
AWS Solution Architect ProfessionalAzure Architect ExpertSplunk Core Certified Power UserSplunk Core Certified Advanced Power UserSplunk Enterprise Certified AdminSplunk Enterprise Certified ArchitectSplunk Enterprise Security Certified AdminSplunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin