Senior Splunk Architect

Project Description

Splunk Engineering team manages engineering work for Splunk clusters across this healthcare services provider. There are 6 Clusters and Splunk Kafka connect is a critical data pipeline.

Team comprises of 1 Director, 1 PM, 3 Architects and 3 Engineers.

Responsibilities

Architect multi-site Splunk cluster that can handle 20 tera bytes per day ingestion volume

Well versed with Splunk Kafka connect architecture, and Kubernetes.

Provide day-to-day support on maintaining a large Splunk implementation (multi tera bytes per day log volume)

Be on-call for responding to any Splunk related issues and resolve/escalate on time

Work with Application teams (the users of Splunk) to resolve any usability issues reported

Develop monitoring for ensuring Splunk infrastructure health (Disk usage, CPU/Memory usage, Performance)

Ensure Splunk infrastructure is up and running and performing with maximum efficiency 24X7

Develop reports on Splunk usage share with team and upper management

Skills

Must have:

Splunk architect certification is a MUST

Core Splunk engineering skills required, expecting strong hands on experience in Splunk:

At least 5 Years intensive Splunk, Kubernetes and Kafka Experience.
Heavy experience should be on Splunk Enterprise, multi-site clustering and Search Head Clustering.
Well versed with Kafka and Kubernetes and Splunk Connect for Kafka experience is required.

Nice To Have

Preferred candidates with Splunk Certifications At least Architect, Kafka Admin Certification and CKA.