Splunk Lead Engineer

Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)

Long Term Contract

• • Designs, develops, modifies, adapts, and implements short - long terms solutions to IT needs through new and existing applications, system architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure
  • Creating, and maintaining Splunk applications. Perform installation, configuration management, license management, data integration, data transformation, field extraction, event parsing, data preview, and Apps management of Splunk platform
  • Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and Windows platforms
  • Design core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks
  • Design and implement Splunk infrastructure, deployment, products, apps, reports, alerts, and dashboards
  • Manage Splunk knowledge objects (Apps, Dashboards, Saved Searches, Scheduled Searches, Alerts)
  • Ensure the Splunk environment continuously meets specification in terms of business requirements (SLA s), application design (standards), and infrastructure performance (KPI s)
  • Engage with avenues of influence (Splunk product managers, user groups, etc.) to align platform capabilities with business requirements
  • Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards
  • Create presentation layers for Technical, Business and Executive Management showing environment operational health based on Key Performance Indicators
  • Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.