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Senior Splunk Engineer

Employer
Kforce
Location
Reston, VA
Closing date
Jul 11, 2022

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Kforce has a client in Reston, VA that is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer.Essential Functions: * Senior Splunk Engineer will manage the lifecycle (installation, maintenance, upgrade) of Splunk platform components: Search Heads, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, Deployment Server, and Splunk Data Collection systems * Install and update Splunk Technical Add-Ons and Splunk Apps as necessary * Gather requirements for the creation and implementation of Splunk searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports * Leverage knowledge of Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) to build Splunk searches as well as refine and optimize scheduled searches of internal corporate partners * Act as the Splunk liaison for Splunk technical questions, issues, or escalations; This will include working with Splunk Support, Product Management (ie, roadmaps), or others as needed * Development of best practices and runbooks for standardization of Splunk management processes and automation * As a Senior Splunk Engineer, you will maintain current functional and technical knowledge of the Splunk platform and future products * Monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity * 5-10 years of experience managing the lifecycle (installation, maintenance, upgrade) of Splunk platform components: Search Heads, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, Deployment Servers * 5-10 years of experience writing, refining, optimizing Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) searches * Experience with Splunk field extractions and transforms * Experience with managing the Splunk platform via the GUI, API, Command Line and Configuration Files * Experience with scripting languages (Perl, Bash, Python) to automate tasks and manipulate data. * Midlevel understanding of SQL for data collection into Splunk * Experience with integrating solutions in a multi-vendor environment, including SaaS environments * Knowledge and experience with creating and refining Regular Expressions for use in string-search/manipulation algorithms * Knowledge and experience with syslog, system logging, application logging formats for the purposes of onboarding data appropriately and efficiently to Splunk * Experience working on Linux/Unix/Solaris platforms * Complete development life cycle experience from design through implementation * Experience with command-line interfaces, graphical user interfaces, API development and integration, statistical monitoring, and analysis * Creative, flexible, and able to fill multiple functions within a development team Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.*Compensation Type:*Hours

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