Splunk System Administrator-Harrisburg, PA - Georgia IT Inc.

Job Title: Splunk System Administrator
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: 06 Month Contract
Rate: Your best

Preferred only GC EAD, Green Card and U.S. Citizens

Duties and Responsibilities

• Produce, publish and maintain documentation adhering to department protocol.
• Thoroughly document system configuration and changes.
• Coordinate with network, database and server administrators to prepare non-production and production environments for new or enhanced systems, processes or applications.
• Participate in system installation, upgrades/patches, configuration and tuning.
• Create and maintain reports, scripts, programs or other tools within the Splunk system to maintain system health and integrity.
• Define and maintain system and monitor application security.
• Follow the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG's) methodology for standardized secure installation and maintenance of computer software and hardware.
• Administration of all aspects of all Splunk environments
  • Implement and maintain Splunk infrastructures and configurations.
  • Monitor all system, applications, hosts, data ingestion, forwarder status, system health, etc.
  • System management for clustering, deployment, licensing, and other server functions.
  • All forwarder interactions with systems
  • Manage and create applications for all of the above.
  • Collect and assess system metrics.
• Customer interaction to determine requirements and success factors for requests
  • Assesses customer requests
  • Provides guidance and training to customers
  • Customer 1st level support, acts as interface between customers and Splunk COTS team
• Create, maintain, and augment documentation per standards established by the Web Development teams.
• Create and maintain manageable processes and documentation for all aspects of administration and development.
• Assist the Splunk team with development of new applications, views, dashboards, reports, alerts, data collection, scheduling of alerts and reports.
• Assist with the development and implementation of document configuration standards, policies and procedures for operating, managing and ensuring the security of Splunk infrastructure.
• Collaborate with other PHEAA teams to establish optimally functioning processes for system optimization, incident management, development practices, etc.
• Collaborate with architects, designers, requirements analysts, database and system administrators and developers on system and application design.
• Promote changes and releases through the various test, quality assurance and production systems.
• Export, import, build and deploy various system configurations and components.
• ECM systems and applications problem resolutions and production support.
• Research and troubleshoot the most complex technical issues causing the unavailability of systems or applications for users and provide expertise for resolution.
• Collaborate with vendor and internal support areas.
• Document the cause and resolution of outages.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues causing the unavailability of systems or applications for users.
• Assist in disaster recovery planning, documentation and implementation.

Required Education/Skills/Experience

Minimum experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science and two years of administration and support experience or relevant experience or certification in computer science, information technology and at least five years administration and support experience or the equivalent combination of experience and training considered.

• Strong Linux/Unix background with scripting for automation and troubleshooting.
• Advanced knowledge of logging and troubleshooting.
• Demonstrated good overall understanding of enterprise-level architecture.
• HTTP/XML programming experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, written and oral.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Understanding of Data Security principles and practices.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Splunk or other data consolidation / data mining technologies.
• Scripting experience with Regular Expressions, Python, JavaScript, XML or other languages.
• Working knowledge with Enterprise technologies (SiteScope, SCCM, Nagios, Puppet, etc.).
• Expert administration knowledge in a number of technical areas which could include Microsoft operating systems, WebSphere, Microsoft SQL Server, PeopleSoft, upgrades, installations, and architecture.
• Experience with technical consulting, big data and/or statistical and analytical modeling.
• Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to other technical staff members as well as non-technical members of the organization.