Associate Tech Specialist

Splunk AdministratorLocation: Atlanta, GA Hybrid Full Time Skill: Jenkins Experience: Min 8 to 10 YearsRoles and ResponsibilitiesSplunk platform administration including installations, upgrades, security, vulnerability remediation and maintenance activities.Monitor the health of the Splunk logging platform performance and capacity to ensure that it can handle the workload of the entire organization.Configure security for the organization.Operational activities to support logging data onboarding, normalization, troubleshooting.Maintaining documentation of all configurations and changes to the system.Splunk data ingestion with large-scale business-critical enterprise applications and systems.Create alerts for unusual activity such as security breaches or system failures.Integrate Splunk with other tools including Okta, AD, Cribl etc.Performing troubleshooting when issues occur with the system to identify the cause.Deployment server administration via CLI.UF/HF installation and troubleshooting for Linux/Windows environments.Use best practices to deploy configurations to Splunk components and UF/HF agents.Automate processes as much as possible using DevOps practices.Work closely with the support in addressing any major upgrades and critical tickets related to security.Engage application and infrastructure teams to establish best practices for utilizing Splunk data and visualizations.Identify gaps and provide hands-on development and enablement assistance to application teams technical users.Develop more robust cost metrics and benchmarking capabilities to assist in efforts supporting IT cost management.Experience6+ years of experience with Splunk engineering, administration, deployment, and maintenance for a large-scale network environment.Strong expertise in understanding architecture and ability to create, modify, and troubleshoot data queries through various data sources.Strong understanding of Splunk configuration files and architecture.Strong knowledge of application monitoring and event management.Strong knowledge of enterprise logging, including application, OS, and security technology logging.Splunk Knowledge Object troubleshooting/provisioning.Advanced Splunk Programming Language (SPL) experience to work with multiple large data sets on complex solutions.Experience w/ interacting with customers' configuration and optimization in Splunk.Experience with using scripting languages to automate tasks and manipulate data.Experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible, and APM tools.Strong knowledge of a scripting language (Python & Shell).Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and deployments.Knowledge on network and Linux enterprise environments.Cribl tool experience.Splunk Certified Administrator. Keylent Inc