Splunk Developer

Splunk Developer Piscataway, NJ Long Term Contract

Responsibilities:

Design, support and provide services for Splunk deployments
Standardize Splunk platform deployment based upon proven best practice methods, to include configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
Troubleshoot and support Splunk Platform and associated topologies on multiple operating systems
Understand and deploy multi-cluster/cluster distributed architectures and application deployment processes
Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards, reports, visualizations and alerts
Assist and support organizations in deploying Splunk platform across networks
Provide assessment services to determine data inputs and sources of machine data to be ingested into the Splunk platform
Monitor the Splunk Platform for capacity planning and optimization
Provide services to tweak and fine tune existing Splunk deployments
Help design core systems performance metrics and troubleshooting logs expertise for customers
Ability to support and automate processes and procedures
Ability to assess design models to maximize data ingest and work with performance metrics to fine tune Splunk
Ability to customize and install apps to maximize visibility throughout the organization
Ability to create run books, operating procedures, and repeatable processes as needed
Ability to administer new and existing Splunk Platform and cloud deployments
Ability to build custom reports and alerting
Ability to build custom dashboards and visualizations

Qualifications:

Minimum 3 years Splunk Developr experience in Enterprise environments
Ability to lead the engagement and work with other team members
Ability to conduct workshops with the customer stakeholders.
Expert knowledge of Linux, Unix, and Windows Operating Systems
Broad industry knowledge of application monitoring and event monitoring
Existing Splunk certifications SCCI or SCCII preferred, Minimum of Splunk Architect
Ability to program in Python, Perl, Shell, Java and C++ is desirable
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
Ability to help define customer use cases and identify required data sources
Ability to deploy Splunk Enterprise in a distributed multi-regional environment and provide insights into processes to ease deployment of the applications across a large Enterprise systems
Experience with Splunk ITSI, ES and other premium apps a plus