Latitude IT Solutions | SDVOSB · 4 weeks ago
AWS Splunk Engineer
Latitude IT Solutions is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Company within the Federal Sector, dedicated to innovation and employee growth. The AWS Splunk Engineer will be responsible for optimizing and managing Splunk infrastructure, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing solutions for technical challenges related to Splunk and cloud environments.
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Responsibilities
Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure
Automate the management and enforcement of policies
Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk
Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns
Help maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure
Help monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity
Maintain cloud network configurations
Maintain gold images
Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support as needed
Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud
Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution
Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind to optimize performance, stability, reliability, and agility
Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage
Responsible for Splunk agent (i.e., Universal Forwarder) deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning
Support and guide client resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers, and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success
Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise and cloud data centers
Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers
Utilize automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical Discipline
AWS Solution Architect Professional or Azure Architect Expert
4 Years of relevant experience in one of the following tools: Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes
Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring, and using AWS/Azure cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
Minimum of three (3) years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution such as Splunk
Multi-Cloud experience in implementing solutions within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience with programming with Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, Powershell, AWS or Azure CLI)
One or more of these Splunk certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin
Knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging
A solid understanding of Cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics
Preferred
Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization
Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
Background that includes at least one core technology; Linux/Windows or database admin (for example), with exp. working application migrations
Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above
ITIL certification or experience with ITIL
Must be capable of working closely with the project leadership and technical resources to understand issues and work toward resolution
Multiple Microsoft or Amazon cloud certifications
Previous Federal Government experience
Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment
Strong creative, analytical and problem solving and trouble-shooting skills
Strong knowledge (recent experience) with the following technologies: storage, servers, data centers, networking
Strong technical experiences working migrations or systems development as well as coordinating from a business perspective
Strong understanding of SDLC concepts, full lifecycle development for systems/applications
Benefits
Medical, Vision, Dental
Paid Vacation & Sick Time
Paid Federal Holidays
401k Retirement Plan with 100% Company Matching
Employer Paid Life Insurance
Continued Education Assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Commuter Benefits Program
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Caregiver Support Program
Adoption Assistance Program
Company
Latitude IT Solutions | SDVOSB
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