Senior Splunk Systems Administrator

About the role

The Senior Splunk Systems Administrator supports the Special Operation Command Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) – located at the SOCOM Headquarters at MacDill, AFB FL. This is a hands-on role involving the setup, monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading of the Splunk Platform.

Responsibilities

• Create alerts and notifications to notify stakeholders of unusual activity such as security breaches or system failures.
• Maintain documentation of all configurations and changes to the system.
• Perform basic troubleshooting when issues occur with the system to identify the cause.
• Analyze data to identify patterns, trends, or other useful information.
• Provide support to users who are having problems with the system or using it incorrectly.
• Audit and reviews security practices to prevent security incidents, such as data breaches, denial of service attacks, or malware infections.
• Enter actual time worked, once complete, at the end of the day, or no later than 10:00 a.m. the following workday, and submit timesheets at the end of each pay period.
• Complete and submit Monthly Status Reports (MSR) to the Project Manager by COB on the last working day of the month.
• Complete required compliance training as assigned.
• Monitor and respond to RavenTek email a minimum of 3 times per week.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications, Knowledge, And Critical Skills

• Experience with Splunk development/administration, installation, configuration, clustering, monitoring, query design, and dashboard design.
• Experience with Splunk administration, configuration, and tuning large environments.
• Experience with data onboarding, Splunk Tas.
• Experience developing/delivering presentations to management and stakeholders.
• Experience in SPLUNK, Compuware Dynatrace, UEM, APMaas (Gomez), Foglight and ELK ASP.Net, C#, XML, HTML, JAVA Script, CSS, SQL, and Python scripting.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise on AWS is desired.

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field
• 5-10 Years of relative experience

Certifications, Licenses

• DoD 8570.01M IAT II

Special Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance required