Job Description

Dear All,
Job Responsibilities - Splunk Administrator

• Designs, implement, and configure the firm-wide Log Analytics Platform as per business requirements using Splunk.
• Administration, monitoring of lifecycle management of Splunk infrastructure components (Search Head, Indexer, Deployment Server, Heavy Forwarder, Cluster Master, License Master, Deployer), Knowledge Objects and Splunk Apps preferably in DevOps model.
• Prioritize, and maintain the roadmap along with being technically hands-on and responsible for deliverables.
• Assist internal users in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards.
• Configure custom reporting & Alerting
• Optimize Splunk data models, indexes, and searches as per best practices.
• Coordinate with other organizations and assist with advanced issue resolution across the enterprise
• Write and develop custom scripts, programs as needed
• Assist in splunk version upgrade and infra expansion of components such as Indexer Cluster, Search Head Cluster, Heavy forwarders, Deployment Servers etc.
• Responsible for the data ingestion from different types sourcetypes to the centralized Log Analytics Platform.

Job Requirements

• The candidate must have at least 6+ years of experience of which at least 3 years of experience in Log management, enterprise monitoring or IT Operations related role on Splunk Logging platform or Elasticsearch.
• Bachelor's in computer science / IT
• Experience in creating dashboards, visualization, reports and scheduled searches.
• Experience in tuning and optimization of Splunk components, queries.
• Expertise in writing custom queries and efficient queries using Splunk Processing Language (SPL).
• Integration of Splunk with wide variety of data sources
• Technical background in Open Systems, Virtualization, Storage and Networking technologies.
• Ideal candidate would also be exposed to DevOps concepts and tools such as Chef, Docker containers and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and implementation of same in real world along with exposure to associated tool sets (JIRA/Confluence)

Desired Skills:

• Experience in REST API and scripting languages (egs: Python or JavaScript programming)
• Knowledge and experience on any Infrastructure as a code tool (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Knowledge and Experience on System Administration and IT Infrastructure.

Skills Required