Splunk Administrator - SysMind Tech : Job Details

Job Title Splunk Admin Work Location Louisville KY Relevant Experience (in Yrs) 6 to 10 Years Technical/Functional Skills Business Knowledge in healthcare domain , Strong debugging and problem solving skills. Roles & Responsibilities Experience in Field Extractions and Transformations using the RegEx in Splunk. Experience in Installing, configuring, and administering Splunk Enterprise on Linux and Windows servers. Installation and implementation of the Splunk App for Enterprise Security and documented best practices for the installation and performed knowledge transfer on the process. Worked on installing Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders to bring any kind of data fields into Splunk. Experience in Writing Splunk Queries, Expertise in searching, monitoring, analyzing and visualizing Splunk logs. Experience in alert handling, standard availability and performance report generation. Experience in root cause analysis of post-production performance related issues through Splunk tool. Experience in Designing, optimizing and executing Splunk-based enterprise solutions. Should have Hands on experience in customizing Splunk dashboards, visualizations, configurations using customized Splunk queries. Monitored the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning, scalability, and optimization. Experienced in using Splunk- DB connect for real-time data integration between Splunk Enterprise and rest all other databases. Expertise in Actuate Reporting, development, deployment, management and performance tuning of Actuate reports. Responsible with Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On's, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management. Monitored license usage, indexing metrics, Index Performance, Forwarder performance, Splunk Architecture/Engineering and Administration for SOX monitoring and control compliance. Design and implement Splunk Architecture (Indexer, Deployment server, Search heads, and Forwarder management), create/migrate existing Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, on daily/weekly schedule to provide the best productivity and service to the business units and other stakeholders. Configured Syslog server for the forwarding the logs to Splunk server via network protocols like TCP and UDP. Subject matter expert in best practices, security protocols, KPI, and other security-related issues. Responsible for troubleshooting various indexing issues by analyzing Splunk logs such as splunkd.log, metrics.log ingested as internal index. Support and execute arrangements considering a full information lifecycle (Search & Investigate, Add Knowledge, Monitor & Alert, Report & Analyze). Followed agile and scrum process for the whole implementation process. Should be able to support 24X7 environment by being flexible in weekend work. Generic Managerial Skills Communication, Coordination skills, Offshore Coordination Education Bachelor or Master Degree