Splunk engineer
TechMatrix
This is a Contract position in Texas City, TX posted April 26, 2020.
Job Description The selected candidate will provide overall engineering and design support for a very large distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles.
The Splunk engineer will support the full system engineering life-cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, integration, test, documentation, and implementation following defined best practices and operational workflows.
RESPONSIBILITIES The candidate should be familiar with recognizing and onboarding new data sources into Splunk, analyzing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data.
The Splunk engineer should be familiar with a Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps.
The Splunk engineer will work with other Cybersecurity Engineering team members and will be required to interact with end users to gather requirements, perform troubleshooting, and provide assistance with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards.
The Splunk engineer will be required interact with senior management, as necessary.
