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Splunk Engineer (Hybrid Schedule)

Conexess Group
Contract
On-site
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Our History: 

From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.



Who We Are:

Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.



Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for a Splunk Engineer. This is a long-term opportunity with a competitive compensation package.



** This position requires a candidate local to one of the following locations to operate on a hybrid schedule, onsite 2-3 days per week**


  • Bloomfield, CT

  • Bloomington, MN

  • Philadelphia, PA


Responsibilities:        

  • Deep understanding and experience supporting and servicing : Splunk, Cribl

  • Experience working within Cloud environment AWS, Azure.

  • Onboard new data sources into Splunk, analyze the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data;

  • Knowledge of monitoring and observability practices & best practices;

  • Experience designing and implementing monitoring solutions for scalability, reliability and performance;

  • Lead troubleshooting calls and drive to root cause resolution of problems across the enterprise;

  • May be assigned to special projects that drive continuous improvement of services and production support processes;

  • Conducts application(s) checkout and testing following releases and/or issue resolution;

  • Maintains process and troubleshooting documentation;

  • Work closely with Agile Program Management, Application Teams, Engineering Partners to ensure collaboration on deliverables;

  • Available On-Call 24x7 support (rotational schedule).


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

  • Splunk Engineer with expertise in AWS, Azure and Cribl

  • Must be able to work in a fast paced technical environment and support a product with frequent product releases and regular maintenance updates;

  • At least 5 years administering Splunk environments, including but not limited to the following:

    • Expert understanding of monitoring tools, components, and best practices for network/application monitoring;

    • Experience implementing best in class engineering strategies to support a distributed clustered Splunk environment consisting of Search Heads, Indexers;

    • Manage application availability, performance, and pro-actively find performance bottlenecks;

    • Familiar with integrating external data inputs including Syslog, files, and REST API - Strong knowledge of Splunk best practices (apps, add-ons, searches, etc.) - Configure data transformations – field extractions, execute, Regex for example.

    • Ability to create complex SPL queries, look ups, joints, data models , comprising of statistical functions;

    • Demonstrated ability to deliver on IT projects across multiple organizations;

    • Understanding of regular expressions (Regex) and Python scripting.





  • Experience working with DevOps tools such as Ansible, Ansible Tower, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GIT;

  • Experience working with Cloud (AWS/Azure);

  • Experience with the following technologies:  Amazon Web Services, Jenkins, GitHub, Windows PowerShell, Java Script, Python, and VMWare;

  • Experience with the following systems is a must: UNIX (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) and Windows;

  • Experience working on Agile Kanban Scrum teams.


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