Sr. Splunk Administrator

Owings Mills, MD

Looking to hire a Sr Splunk Administrator for the Reliability Ops team within the Technology Services Operations Enablement group. The Reliability Ops team supports observability and developer productivity platforms. The Sr Splunk Administrator will be responsible for supporting Splunk Enterprise, including managing Windows and Linux servers, automating through Ansible, and coordinating the migration of on-premises hardware to AWS.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support onboarding and maintenance of logs to Splunk from windows, Linux, and cloud-based sources

Support platform upgrades including coordinating testing of upgrades with users of the platform

Automating manual platform management processes through Ansible or other scripting tools/languages

Troubleshooting incidents impacting the Splunk platform on RedHat Linux

Evaluate the use and integration of third-party add-ons

Coordinating and collaboration with users of the platform

Develop training and documentation materials

Executing disaster recovery playbooks

Perform on call rotation, every 4 weeks

REQUIREMENTS:

8+ years of overall IT experience

4 years’ experience managing and configuring Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud

Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues

Able to demonstrate experience supporting technical users and conduct requirements analysis

Experience with IT Service Management and familiarity with Incident & Problem management

Experience with Splunk clustered deployment topology

Experience with Linux and Windows agents for Splunk administration

Experience in onboarding new data, configuration, creating new dashboards, and extracting information through Splunk

Experience with writing or modifying custom Splunk add-ons

Demonstrates proficiency with scripting and automation (bash, python, other programming languages)

Familiarity with Splunk rest API’s

PREFERED SKILLS:

Experience with Ansible tower automations

Experience using Gitlab, large platform migration efforts

Experience with AWS OpenSearch

Splunk Certification (Admin or Architect)

Please send/Email resumes:

Samantha.Walsh@compassptc.com