Splunk Engineer

Job Summary:
Randstad Federal is seeking a Splunk Engineer for a part-time position supporting a program at IRS.

Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $70 - 80 per hour
Work Hours: 8am to 4pm
Education: Bachelors

Responsibilities:

• Development of dashboards within the Splunk platform, utilizing Splunk SPL queries, reports, dashboards, visualizations, and alerts. 80%
• Developing business metrics and server metrics dashboards. 5%
• Create and maintain technical documentation related to dashboard components: XML, macros, saved searches, etc. 3%
• Using knowledge of Splunk configuration files (indexes.conf, props.conf, transforms.conf, output.conf, inputs.conf, servers.conf) to interact with other groups who install and maintain the Splunk server infrastructure. 3%
• Configuration of Splunk DB Connect App (Identities and Connections). 3%
• Create scheduled alerts using cron expressions with specific time ranges. 3%
• Dashboard code packaging and deployment from DEV to PROD or other environments. 3%

Required Skills/Level of Experience:

• Six to ten years IT technical experience with five or more years experience developing advanced token-controlled Splunk dashboards using Simple XML, HTML and CSS.
• Experience in gathering requirements from application teams and creating advanced Splunk dashboards - 6 years
• Experience in writing complex Splunk searches for alerts, reports and dashboards - 6 years
• Experience in Splunk data ingestion from database tables, application logs and static sources such as CSV and JSON files - 6 years
• Experience with understanding and customizing SQL queries - 6 years
• Knowledge on constructing Splunk friendly regex expressions - 6 years
• Experience in optimizing Splunk search queries to obtain optimal performance - 6 years
• Experience using Splunk or other tool(s) for storage projections - 2 years

Preferred Skills:

• Splunk administrator certifications
• Splunk power user/Advanced power user/developer certifications
• Experience applying AI and Machine Learning tools, such as Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to troubleshooting of business IT applications
• Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning in a Linux and SAN Storage infrastructure
• Experience using 3 or more of the following Splunk Technologies:
• Splunk DB Connect, Lookup Editor, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, Splunk REST API
• Oracle SQL, Splunk Federated Index implementation, Data Analytics, Splunk Unix and Linux Add-on
• Splunk WebSphere Application Add-on, Advanced Regex based log parsing

Qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

Skills:

• Splunk

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.