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splunk Engineer
Ref No.: 22-01426
Location: Wayne, New Jersey
Title: Splunk Engineer
Level of position: Senior


Location: Malvern, PA
Open to VMS
R2D2:
Desired start date: As soon as possible
Capgemini End Client Vanguard

  • Manage the installation and configuration of monitoring and observability software (strong Splunk experience desired)

Duties:
  • Using strong troubleshooting and communication skills to investigate Splunk issues (data ingest, client requests etc.) and collaborate with other engineers to resolve
  • Strong client communication skills - situational awareness, setting appropriate expectations, communicating updates, not over or under sharing information
  • Investigating and troubleshooting monitoring related issues on Windows/Linux servers and in shell/Perl scripts
  • Assisting in the development of the overall project plans and timetables, analysis, and identification of intermediate deliverables.
  • Assisting with estimating work efforts required for each phase of the project.
  • Working with administrative languages, tools, and techniques such as shell, bash, YAML, JSON to automate AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Configuring Monitoring and alerting for production workloads in AWS
  • Managing AWS infrastructure using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
  • Leveraging standard tooling, like Bitbucket/Bamboo for deploying code
  • Manage the installation and configuration of applications like Tivoli, SiteScope, AppDynamics and SCOM helping clients to setup alerts as per the request.
  • Configuring Splunk data ingestion and creating dashboards and alerts
  • Writing high quality client and internal facing documentation of technologies and procedures
  • Abiding by ITIL and Vanguard procedures in a regulated environment for change management, incident management, problem management, etc.

Strongly Desired Skills
  • Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing
  • Familiarity with standard web application and microservice concepts
  • Previous experience providing installation and administration of tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Tivoli/ ITM, Microsoft SCOM, VMWare VRops, Client Sitescope, ThousandEyes, AWS Cloudwatch, Grafana or similar open source or vendor tools
  • Experience coding with Python, Powershell, Perl or unix shell scripting
  • Experience automating deployment or configuration with Ansible or Puppet
  • Experience deploying assets in AWS and using AWS Cloudwatch for monitoring
  • Experience in monitoring or performance testing methodology
  • Experience in supporting production environments
  • Experience and knowledge of common system administration concepts (virtualization/VMWare, Windows/Linux OS, Active Directory/LDAP, etc)