What are the responsibilities and job description for the Splunk Consultant position at Radiansys, Inc.?
Job Details
Job Title: Splunk Consultant
Location: Alpharetta, GA (4 days per week on-site)
FTE/C2C
Job Description:
We are looking for a very experienced Splunk-focussed Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and work on some exciting projects. This position requires someone to be locally present and go to the work location 4 days a week.
Essential functions:
Splunk Expertise:
Location: Alpharetta, GA (4 days per week on-site)
FTE/C2C
Job Description:
We are looking for a very experienced Splunk-focussed Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and work on some exciting projects. This position requires someone to be locally present and go to the work location 4 days a week.
Essential functions:
- Splunk Administration & Management Deploy, configure, and manage Splunk Cloud and Splunk Observability Suite. Ensure proper indexing, data ingestion, parsing, and retention policies.
- Manage user roles, authentication, and security controls within Splunk.
- Monitoring & Observability Implement and maintain dashboards, alerts, and reports using Splunk Observability tools (APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, RUM).Optimize log ingestion and monitoring strategies for real-time insights. Work with development and operations teams to enhance application and infrastructure observability.
- Performance Optimization Fine-tune Splunk queries, reports, and dashboards to ensure optimal performance. Optimize data models, searches, and indexing strategies to improve efficiency.
- Troubleshoot slow searches and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Automation & Integration Automate Splunk administration tasks using scripts (Python, Bash, etc.).
- Integrate Splunk with third-party tools, including cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Develop automation for log onboarding and data normalization.
- Collaboration & Support Work closely with DevOps, SRE, Security, and Application teams to understand logging and monitoring needs. Provide training and documentation for internal users to maximize Splunk usage. Support troubleshooting efforts for production incidents using Splunk insights.
- Capacity Planning & Upgrades Monitor system health and plan for scaling as log volumes grow.
- Manage Splunk upgrades, patches, and new feature rollouts. Stay updated with Splunk best practices and emerging technologies.
Splunk Expertise:
- 3 years of hands-on experience in Splunk administration and management.
- Strong understanding of Splunk Cloud, Splunk Observability Suite, and log ingestion pipelines.
- Experience configuring and managing Splunk indexing, parsing, and retention policies.
- Service optimization to enhance performance and cost efficiency.
- Governance and guardrails implementation to ensure compliance with service limits.
- Monitoring & Observability: Proficiency in implementing dashboards, alerts, and reports using Splunk APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, and RUM.
- Experience optimizing log ingestion and monitoring strategies for real-time insights.
- Familiarity with observability best practices and troubleshooting performance issues.
- Performance Optimization & Troubleshooting: Ability to fine-tune Splunk queries, dashboards, and reports for performance efficiency.
- Strong experience in optimizing data models, searches, and indexing strategies.
- Expertise in troubleshooting Splunk-related performance bottlenecks and slow searches.
- Automation & Scripting: Experience in automating Splunk administration tasks using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Knowledge of integrating Splunk with cloud services such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Ability to develop automation for log onboarding and data normalization.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Knowledge: Hands-on experience with Azure services, including AKS, API Management, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, and Service Bus.
- Understanding of cloud-based monitoring and logging best practices.
- Collaboration & Support: Ability to work cross-functionally with DevOps, SRE, Security, and Application teams.
- Strong documentation skills for creating internal training and operational runbooks.
- Experience supporting production incident troubleshooting using Splunk insights.
- Capacity Planning & Upgrades: Ability to monitor system health, scale log volumes, and manage Splunk upgrades.
- Familiarity with Splunk patches, new feature rollouts, and best practices.
It would be a plus:
- Experience with Other Observability Tools: Hands-on knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and Splunk integrations.
- Programming & Development Skills: Experience with Java, TypeScript, or Python for backend and observability enhancements. Familiarity with microservices architecture and API development.
- Security & Compliance Knowledge: Understanding of security best practices in monitoring and logging.
- Experience implementing RBAC and authentication policies in Splunk.
- Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Exposure: Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments, including on-premise Splunk deployments.
- Splunk Certified Admin or Splunk Certified Architect.
- Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform certifications related to cloud observability or administration.
- Kubernetes & Container Observability: Understanding of Kubernetes logging and monitoring within AKS.Experience managing logs from containerized environments.
- Performance Engineering & Optimization: Experience optimizing Splunk resource consumption and query efficiency in high-volume environments.
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