What are the responsibilities and job description for the Splunk Professional Services Consultant position at Conducive?
Splunk Professional Services Consultant
Job Summary:
Professional Services Consultants make things work, get things done, and set the customer on the path to success. The Consultants who succeed at Conducive are able to solve tough techincal problems, manage and work with a variety of customers, and bring a variety of technical experience to their job. As each customer and their problems are unique, the Splunk Consultant excels at solving a wide range of the most challenging problems and is comfortable quickly learning new technologies. Because Splunk is the data hub, Splunk Professional Services Consultants must have exposure to several technologies ranging networking to databases. At Conducive you will often find yourself guiding a customer to configure their systems to send data to Splunk. Conducive has a stellar reputation for excellence with a “Dream Team” of the most talented individuals with extensive experience and great personalities.
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the customer while driving Splunk deployments, configurations, architecture and customized reports and dashboards.
- Share Splunk expertise with the Conducive and Splunk teams and clients by leveraging experiences, investigating best practices and creating innovative solutions
- Understand current issues and propose potential Splunk solutions
- Communicate, investigate, implement
- Remote engagement with occasional travel
Required Experience:
- Must be able to pass a background check (no financial/criminal/drug issues)
- 3 years of experience with Splunk, 6 years of IT experience
- Demonstrated ability to convert IT issues and requirements into Splunk solutions
- General understanding of enterprise IT and data center environments
- Ability to quickly explore, examine and understand complex problems, how problems relates to the customer’s business and ultimately communicate to technical and non-technical customers
- Experience with both the Unix and Windows operating systems; comfortable on the command line interface
- Self-motivated, self-educating, and willing and able to work collaboratively
Bonus Experience:
- Working knowledge or recent experience with scripting languages (bash, python, or perl), networking, system administration, databases and analytical tools
- Solid grasp of best practices as recommended by Splunk
- Splunk Admin or Architecture certification
- General IT and networking knowledge
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree, or higher, in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
About Conducive:
Founded in 2006 and based in Austin, Texas, Conducive is a systems integrator with a passion for solving complex business problems and helping our customers get the most out of their existing data assets. We are growing our practice, focused on Splunk solutions. We are a certified Splunk services delivery partner/reseller and have worked closely with a wide range of Splunk customers. Check us out on LinkedIn, or ConduciveSI.com.
Benefits:
In addition to offering the ability to work for a stellar company with smart people in a great atmosphere, we offer the following benefits:
- Extremely competitive salaries
- Full medical and dental coverage
- 3 weeks of paid time off
- Flexible work schedules
- Retirement accounts with company matching
- Paid training
- Long term and short term disability