Splunk Architect at World Wide Technology (Houston, TX)

Splunk Architect

World Wide Technology is looking for a Splunk Architect to join our Professional Services Practice Management team. 

Responsibilities:

 Provide Splunk services for customers

• Design, support and provide services for Splunk deployments
  • Into existing and new infrastructures
• Standardize Splunk platform deployment based upon proven best practice methods, to include configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
• Troubleshoot and support Splunk Platform and associated topologies on multiple operating systems
• Understand and deploy multi-cluster/cluster distributed architectures and application deployment processes
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards, reports, visualizations and alerts
• Assist and support organizations in deploying Splunk platform across networks
• Provide assessment services to determine data inputs and sources of machine data to be ingested into the Splunk platform
• Monitor the Splunk Platform for capacity planning and optimization
• Provide services to tweak and fine tune existing Splunk deployments
• Help design core systems performance metrics and troubleshooting logs expertise for customers
• Ability to support and automate processes and procedures
• Ability to assess design models to maximize data ingest and work with performance metrics to fine tune Splunk
• Ability to customize and install apps to maximize visibility throughout the organization
• Ability to create run books, operating procedures, and repeatable processes as needed
• Ability to administer new and existing Splunk Platform and cloud deployments
• Ability to build custom reports and alerting
• Ability to build custom dashboards and visualizations

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years Splunk experience in Enterprise environments
• Expert knowledge of Linux, Unix, and Windows Operating Systems
• Broad industry knowledge of application monitoring and event monitoring
• Existing Splunk certifications SCCI or SCCII preferred, Minimum of Splunk Architect
• Active Secret or TS security clearance desirable
• Willingness to train and achieve Splunk SCCII certs and others as needed
• Ability to program in Python, Perl, Shell, Java and C++ is desirable
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
• Ability to help define customer use cases and identify required data sources
• Ability to work in a fast paced, enterprise environment
• Ability to deploy Splunk Enterprise in a distributed multi-regional environment and provide insights into processes to ease deployment of the applications across a large Enterprise systems
• Ability to become a trusted advisor for the organization
• Ability to present concisely and clearly to technical and executive audiences
• Passion for learning and continual self improvement
• Equally comfortable delivering services individually or as part of a high performance
• Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to users
• Experience with Splunk ITSI, ES and other premium apps a plus
• Willing to travel up to 50- 75% of the time

World Wide Technology, Inc. offers excellent benefits and competitive compensation. Visit our company web page at http://bit.ly/2FB1IEp for more information.

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