Job Description
We have an outstanding Contract position for a Splunk Architect to join a leading Company located in the Doral, FL surrounding area.
**US Citizenship is required.**
**Candidate must possess an Active Secret Security Clearance.**
Responsibilities:
- Ability to fulfill the Splunk admin role as well as the architect
- Fully design and architect a Splunk Enterprise environment
- Experience with multi-site clustering Architecture and deployment
- Experience in designing multi-site clustering
- Experience and knowledge of Splunk validated designs
- Experience with large Splunk deployments 30+TB
- Experience with on-prem and cloud architectures
- Experience with ingest vs SVC vs forecasting (predictive) licensing
- Understanding SVC cloud models
- Firmunderstanding of search, indexer, and forwarding tiers
- Working knowledge of smartstore vs traditional frameworks
- Working knowledge of architecting Splunk for performance
- Understanding Splunk Cloud SaaS vs hybrid models
- Experience with maximizing traffic flows to Splunk on-prem and cloud
- Ability to create custom parsers
- Working knowledge of Splunk knowledge objects
- Ability to deploy HA for Cluster Managers and indexer clusters
- Ability to deploy HA for Deployment Servers
- Experience with Search head clustering
- Understanding of site0
- Understanding of search affinity
- Understanding of cluster management
- Understanding of SF/RF, single and multisite
- Ability to follow through on projects
Basic Hiring Criteria:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in deploying large enterprise Splunk architectures
- Experience with planning large Splunk deployments
- Experience with documenting large Splunk deployments
- Experience with designing and architecting large Splunk deployments
- Good oral and written skills
- Good presentation skills
Desired Qualifications:
- ES and ITSI experience
- Scripting experience
- Large enterprise deployments
- Willing to travel
- Willing to work on a team
- Leadership and extreme ownership skills when taking on a project
- Documentation and capacity planning skills
- Splunk architect certification
- Security background
- Understanding of cloud computing concepts
- Understanding of observability
Job Tags
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