IT Specialist - Splunk (5-9 yrs)

Objective Of This Role :

As an IT Engineer for our growing global Splunk based Log Management and IT/IT-Security Operations & Analytics platform you would be the responsible and accountable person for operations of the Splunk infrastructure and a strong contributor to further development and improvements of all Splunk related services.

Tasks & Responsibilities :

- Responsible to take care of IT-Operations for secure implementation, operations, maintenance, monitoring and management of the globally deployed, Log Management and Analytics platform based on splunk.

- Solutions Engineer extensively contributing to the conceptional development and further distribution of the provided splunk services

- Contact person for operational topics related to the splunk service.

- Ensure that the service is operated in-line with our internal SLA

Education & Trainings :

- University degree or equivalent

- Certified with at least 1 Splunk Certification

- ITIL Trained OR Certified

Technical know-how :

- Good knowledge on splunk Backend operations (UF, HF, SH and Indexer Cluster) and architecture

- Good knowledge on splunk Frontend (search-heads) operations and complex dashboard creation

- Good knowledge on splunk search query languages incl. RegEx.

- Good knowledge of Log Management in general

- Understanding of data parsimony as a concept and willingness to live it, especially in terms of German data security standards.

- Splunk troubleshooting methods and tools

- Good understanding of the data derived from typical IT and IT-Security log sources like from network assets, endpoints, proxies, firewalls, etc.

- Good Understanding of ITIL processes like Change management, Incident or Problem mgmt.

- Knowledge of making configurational updates from CLI. Managing conf files through Central Console Units like DS, CM and Deployer.

- Hands on experience of working with Data Models, Data normalization via CIM, search time performance optimization concepts.

- Strong hands-on over Linux Operating System.

Good to know :

- SIEM and IT-Security Analytics Knowledge in general and splunk specific

- Splunk Power User Certification

- Knowledge of Scripting eg. Powershell, Python

- Splunk Patch Management

Experience : Total 5 years

Relevant : 3-5 years