Sr Splunk Administrator (Houston, TX)

(must be able to convert for permanent employment without sponsorship) Must Have Skills: 5+ years of experience with Splunk Splunk certification Experience in design, implementation and support of Splunk core components, including indexers, forwarders, search heads, and cluster managers Experience with configurations and administration of Splunk ingestion and forwarding for new and existing applications and data Experience with troubleshooting Splunk dataflow issues between the various Splunk core components Experience configuring and deploying data collection for a variety of operating systems and network platforms Experience creating Dashboards and Analytics within SIEM tools Experience working with monitoring systems supporting auditing, incident response, and system health Understanding of networking components and devices, ports, protocols, and basic networking troubleshooting steps The ability to troubleshoot issues with log feeds, search time, and field extractions Soft Skills: ability to articulate dashboards through presentations excellent written and verbal communication skills Education/certification requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline Splunk certification Day to Day responsibilities: Designing, maintaining and troubleshooting the SIEM environment Develop advanced SIEM correlation rules, reports and dashboards to detect emerging threats Manage, develop and tune the scripts that integrate SIEM Design and generate data parsers as necessary to optimize ingestion of data from a wide variety of devices including servers, firewalls, Cloud Applications Maintain comprehensive documentation of security controls, policies, and procedures for SIEM environment. Creating workflows for Incident Response within a SIEM Tool Assist with Incident response and Cyber investigations. Department: Preferred Vendors This is a contract to hire position Visit Careers at CEDENT Subscribe to be notified of new jobs If we don't have an open position that fits you, feel free to subscribe to our Talent Team email! Enter your name, email address and position(s) you're interested in, and whenever we open a new position matching your criteria we'll notify you immediately. * First name: * Last name: * Email address: * Send me openings in these areas: Vendor Managed Systems Direct Clients Preferred Vendors Scout I'm interested in: Management Non-mgt Subscribe Apply Now