Splunk Certified Specialist Infra

This ‘new to be build’ IT organization has a need for advanced Splunk users, with knowledge of Engineering in an AWS/Linux environment. The organization already runs a big chunk of their infrastructure in Public Cloud (mainly AWS – because of multi cloud strategy also adopting Azure), but are currently further optimizing this environment with a security by design and ‘automate everything’ mindset.

This organization is currently adopting a new operating model for which they are looking to grow with multiple engineers. You are brought on board for raising the level of expertise and knowledge around Splunk, in the role of hands-on Senior Admin.

Location

The Hague

Start date

Immediate / Open to discuss

Rate

Competitive and negotiable

Contract length

6 months, option to extend

Hours/week

32-40 (fulltime preferred)

Responsibilities as a Splunk Specialist

You and your team will be introducing mission critical security monitoring platform based on Splunk containing confidential data, hosted on AWS. You will be busy with optimizing and maintaining the platform, and raising the knowledge level of the team where possible. Security is created with Security by design in mind.

The environment contains concepts like Infra as Code, automated deployments and Immutable Infrastructure. Tools used in the AWS environment: RHEL, CloudFormation, Lambda, Azure DevOps etc. Splunk setup include multi-site indexer cluster integrated with search head cluster, load balanced forwarders, deployer, deployment server and a license master.

Required skills and experience

• Experience with Splunk Admin, deployments and configurations.

• Further developing the Splunk environment with system enhancements.

• Onboarding new Splunk feeds

• Work experience in an AWS / RHEL environment.

• Experience with Infra as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation).

• Experience with CI/CD (like Azure DevOps).

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes nice to have)

• Proven scripting abilities (Bash, Python)

• Good understanding of the entire IT Infrastructure stack, including troubleshooting

Nice to have

• Splunk Certified Admin and/or Architect

• Certifications for AWS

• RHCE Certified

Apply now, or contact me for any questions you might have.

Kind regards,

Tim Meijer
TERGOS