What are the responsibilities and job description for the Splunk Admin (Hybrid) position at Cognizant?
Title: Splunk Admin/SRE – Onsite
About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.
*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
Responsibilities
- Splunk administration support, including operation and maintenance of the log aggregation and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform.
- Perform systems analysis, modify, and update systems and related data ingestion parameters based on results of analysis, deploy applications and tools, perform testing of deployed applications and tools, and communicate updates to the customer.
- Establish and maintain configuration and technical support, assist in the technical design process, and provide guidance/direction to customer on how to best get value from Splunk products.
- Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot SPLUNK servers, clusters, and management systems.
Install, upgrade, and maintain required SPLUNK applications and add-ons.
- Provide performance and license tuning for systems and troubleshoot SPLUNK components across multiple network environments.
Provide solution engineering support to ensure systems and components meet current and future standards.
- Develop, create, deploy, and manage custom SPLUNK monitors, alerts, and dashboards.
Monitor SPLUNK for cluster status, health status, and other issues, and resolve as needed.
- Manage patching and updates of Splunk hosts and/or Splunk application software.
- Monitor and audit configurations and participate in the Change Management process to ensure that unauthorized changes do not occur.
Mandatory Skills
(Top 5 Keywords or skills)
Skill Proficiency
Years of Experience
SRE
5 Years
ELK
5 Years
Splunk
5 Years
Experience developing in any of the languages Bash, Perl, Shell, Powershell, SQL, D3, HTML, XML, CSS, Bash, JAVA and/or Python scripts.
5 Years
The annual salary for this position is between $108,000 - $120,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
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Salary : $108,000 - $120,000
