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