[Remote] Splunk Engineer - Core Consultant Certified/ES Accreditation (R-00041)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. True Zero Technologies is a veteran-owned small business focused on enabling people and technology for better outcomes. They are seeking a Splunk Engineer to maintain clients' Splunk instances, emphasizing data onboarding, content development, reporting, and visualizations.


Responsibilities

  • Maintain various clients' Splunk instances with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, reporting, and visualizations
  • Possess prior Splunk engineering and administration experience, meet the necessary certification prerequisites, and work well in a team environment
  • Support federal customers as a plus
  • Receive access to the full knowledge base driven by the True Zero community and technical backing of the entire PS team
  • Encourage collaboration and growth through information sharing and knowledge workshops
  • Access to internal Slack channel to stay connected with the team as well as the necessary tools to train, demo, test and grow professional skills

Skills

  • Splunk Consultant Certification
  • Splunk ES Accreditation
  • Ability to steer IT environments lowering operational risk, challenges, and enhancing service performance
  • Experience designing and implementing ground up distributed Splunk installations including all Splunk server roles (Search Head, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders and Universal Forwarders, etc.)
  • Experience with advanced configuration of Splunk including Indexer Clustering and Search Head Clustering
  • Experience maintaining and administering enterprise Splunk implementations
  • Experience developing custom Splunk content including scheduled searches, reports, dashboards, etc
  • Proficient at data on-boarding activities including custom parsing rules, custom Technology Add-On building according to Splunk's Common Information Model (CIM)
  • Experience configuring indexes, index routing, retention policies, etc
  • Experience working in linux and windows environments, ability to configure:
  • Storage subsystems (I.e. partitioning, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes, etc.)
  • SELinux
  • Familiarity with different flavors of Linux distros (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.)
  • File Permission Settings (linux/windows)
  • Excellent written and oral skills, ability to work closely with multiple customers, manage expectations, and track engagement scope
  • Experience with RBA is highly suggested
  • Candidates with backgrounds supporting federal customers is a plus

Benefits

  • Best in class medical coverage
  • 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
  • Company wide new business incentive programs
  • Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
  • 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
  • 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
  • Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
  • Paternity/Maternity Leave
  • Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills

Company Overview

  • True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Annandale, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://truezerotech.com.

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