Splunk Consultant

Splunk Consultant urgently required for a new project in the Netherlands.

Job Responsibilities:

- Working knowledge of LAN/WAN equipment and related services
- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying and maintaining Splunk solutions, reporting, alerting and dashboards
- Strong knowledge of Splunk search language
- Creating production quality dashboards, reports and threshold alerting mechanisms
- Support Splunk on Linux, Windows and virtualized platforms
- Solid understanding of logging technologies (syslog, Windows and UNIX native logging)
- Extensive knowledge of a tier Splunk installation; indexers, forwarders, search heads, clusters
- Familiar with Splunk architecture and best practices
- Driving and managing the technology evaluation and integration of add-ons for Splunk.
- Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of platforms
- Apply hot fixes/upgrades
- Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization
- Should be comfortable working for a dynamic technical organization with a large client base.
- Ideally would possess strong presentation skills and be able to communicate clearly and professionally to emails, and when submitting reports.
- Need to be organized and analytical, and be able to document processes and procedures

Job Qualifications:

- Experience and familiarity with IT management products and services
- Experience with networking, server, application and web technologies
- Strong experience administering and monitoring enterprise operating systems, including Linux and Windows Servers
- A broad background in technical infrastructure, including Servers, networking devices, and storage is very desirable
- Programming and development skills in at least some of following: Python, Perl, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, regular expressions (REGEX required)
- Splunk certifications are a plus, but not required
- Effective at communicating clearly to technical and business audiences
- Well organized with a healthy sense of urgency, and able to set, communicate, and meet aggressive deadlines and milestones