Splunk Engineer

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Develops, implements, integrates and maintains applications. Under general supervision, formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems. Designs, develops, tests, debugs, documents and maintains apps, dashboards, alerts.

* Completes all technical development tasks pertaining to applications per approved projects and allocated budgets; * Interfaces extensively with functional users to confirm the applicability of design alternatives, identifies and recommends cost effective options, and address user concerns; * Interfaces as necessary with all critical integration points to insure that applications are integrating successfully and efficiently with all requested applications; * Conducts necessary internal quality assurance, system testing, and load testing to ensure that the application is of high quality when released to users for the User Acceptance Testing phase of the project (manage all necessary migration of software code to/from the respective environments - development, quality assurance, training); * Works closely with end users and corporate sponsors during the User Acceptance Testing phase of the project to insure that any and all necessary changes to the application can be accommodated to meet user requirements while also honoring timeline and budget restrictions; * Provides detailed deployment documentation to the support group to insure preparedness to deploy new releases into the production environment within the SLA windows * Designs, implements, and maintains databases with respect to access methods, access time, validation checks, and statistical methods; * Maps workflow and creates design specifications based on functional requirements; * Translates logical information model to efficient physical database designs; * Configures, analyzes, designs, develops, and maintains program code and applications to support business processes and functions; works on large, complex installations; * At the lower levels, responsibilities focus primarily on simple systems analysis and development activities. At the senior level positions, responsibilities focus primarily on design and development of innovative business solution systems. * At higher levels, designs and consults on data design, database architecture, metadata and repository creation; develops data warehousing blueprints, evaluates hardware and software platforms, and integrates systems. Evaluates reusability of current data for additional analysis; reviews object and data models and the metadata repository to structure the data for better management and quicker access. Serves as an expert to application developers to provide expertise on capabilities and constraints. * Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge of particular field of specialization to the completion of complex assignments. Advanced knowledge of organization's technologies and practices

**Required** * Requires BS/BA in related discipline (i.e., Senior Engineer, Software Design and Development) and 5-8 years of experience in related field (i.e., Solution Architecture Design) OR MS/MA and 3-5 years of experience in related field. Will consider additional related industry experience in lieu of degree. * Expert Knowledge in Splunk (Design, Implementation, Configuration, and Management) * Understanding and experience in designing, scaling, implement for large volume processing * Experience in Big data analytics * Expert Knowledge Perl and scripting * Knowledge of Unix/Linux commands * Expert Knowledge of IT process framework and practices (for example, ITIL) **Preferred** * Experience in large Splunk environment (TBs of data) * Experience in installing, configuring, administering Splunk, including but not limited to, dashboard creation, DB Connect, alerting, role/user provisioning, clustering * Knowledge of networking environments, operating systems, relational databases, application environments (Java, .NET, etc.), and key vendor environments * Knowledge JavaScript