PLATFORM ENGINEERING - SPLUNK

Certifications Required:

· Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect

Job Descriptions:

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, e.g. 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 backend 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 e.g. (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Git, Bitbucket, Subversion) within a physical environment.

Job type: Contract Division: eTeam Workforce Limited Reference: 22-02590