Jr. SPLUNK Administrator

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Splunk Administrator to join our team at our client’s site in Columbia, SC, or Washington, DC. This position is for a System Administrator to provide Operational support for the Executive Office of the U.S. Attorneys. The primary scope of duties includes 24/7 Managing and Monitoring of critical IT infrastructure in a Network Operations Center environment.

This position is for a Jr. SPLUNK Engineer. The primary scope of duties is providing Splunk maintenance, dashboarding, and reporting support to multiple Splunk distributed enterprise environments. The Junior Splunk Engineer shall, under the guidance of the Network Operations IT Program Manager, be responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of the EOUSA/NOS Splunk deployment, including:

• Perform daily administrative tasks to manage Splunk datasets and storage utilization. This includes monitoring automated backup tasks, manually backing up data if necessary, monitoring storage utilization on Splunk servers in all environments as well as network-attached storage.
• Maintain Splunk Knowledgebase by updating existing and creating new KB articles as identified by the team.
• Create and update Splunk resources including saved searches, visualizations, alerts, dashboards, and any other ad hoc deliverables as needed.
• Interface with the user community and provide the first level of support to troubleshoot issues or assist with any other Splunk requirements.
• Coordinate with, accept tasking from, accept guidance from, and collaborate on priorities with the Senior Splunk engineer / Task lead.
• Participate in periodic stand-up task meetings. Frequency may be daily or multiple times per week based on projects in process.
• Create Splunk reports and dashboards as identified as needed based on enterprise customer requirements or internal team needs.
• Manage Splunk lookups by verifying that automated jobs are updating lookup tables properly as well as making ad-hoc changes as necessary.
• Monitor, administer, and maintain accessibility to Splunk components including search heads, indexers, deployers, cluster masters, forwarders and Syslog servers for continuous production environment uptime
• Coordinating with various components within EOUSA and DOJ to troubleshoot issues
• Manage and secure RHEL and Windows servers for the Splunk platform including patches and access controls.
• Assist team with reviewing/assessing/implementing new data sources, ie: Syslog, scripted input, db inputs
• Working with IT Managers to validate data and provide training on new dashboard enhancements
• Assist with integrating various data sets into Splunk and creating new dashboards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, security, and availability of the USAO WAN
• Provide a weekly Progress/Exceptions Report to include a list of tasks assigned, completed, and pending.

Requirements:

• Must have 2 years of experience as a SPLUNK administrator/engineer in an enterprise environment similar in size and scope to EOUS
• SPLUNK Certifications are preferred but not required.

Security Clearance Requirements: Interim Secret

• Must be able to attain up to Secret Clearance
  

Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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