Senior Splunk Engineer - Work at Home

Company: Humana
Location: Louisville
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Description

The Senior Enterprise Observability (Splunk) Engineer devises an effective strategy for executing and delivering on IT business initiatives. This position will involve a range of Splunk engineering and configuration activities including system deployment, Splunk app implementation, data onboarding, and other Splunk integrations. Development projects employ DevOps practices and Agile methodologies to ensure timely delivery of solution improvements aligned with customer requirements. This role will be responsible, working closely with Security Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering teams to identify, design, implement, and test solutions for logging and observability. A strong IT background, as well as knowledge of network and systems administration is beneficial.
---Work closely with Security and IT Operations teams and project stakeholders to deliver needed solutions in a timely manner.
---Develop and maintain detailed technical documentation which includes solution requirements, use cases, system dependencies, test plans, build and deployment
---Drives transparency and monitoring of critical log data ingestion including alerting based on dynamic thresholds
---Collaboratively design and implement custom Splunk solutions which satisfy project requirements.

Responsibilities

Do you enjoy using data to solve complex problems? Do you enjoy working with cutting edge technology to deliver transformational change? In this role, you will have the opportunity to generate tremendous value to Humana's IT operations and security teams leveraging vast amounts of machine-generated data.

The Senior Technology Solutions Professional acts as a liaison and collaborates with the business and functional stakeholders to identify and deliver strategic enablement solutions. Begins to influence department's strategy. Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components, and work is performed without direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/certifications
• Solid understanding of operations, technology, communications and processes
• 4+ years of progressive experience leading continuous improvement efforts, evaluating existing systems and implementing process improvements
• 3+ years of Splunk or equivalent SIEM experience
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
• Experience with interconnected, heterogeneous systems
• Strong understanding of industry standards and technologies Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in GCP,Azure and AWS cloud platforms log ingestions to Splunk.
  • Experience with Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) and Enterprise Analytic
  • Expert Splunk application and dashboard developer using complex data searches
  • Experience optimizing applications to reduce impact on resources
    
    Experience with Splunk administration, configuration, tuning large environments
  • Experience with data onboarding, Splunk TAs
  • Experience managing complex data, specifically managing role-based access control, configuring roles and designing data onboarding to support current and future roles
  • Experience with Regex and custom scripting
  • Expertise in Splunk SPL and python
  • Experience with Splunk Premium Apps - ITSI and Enterprise Security (ES) is plus
  • Experience with and very comfortable working in an agile environment
  • Splunk Certified Cloud Admin
  • Splunk Certified Advanced Power User Preferred Skills and Experience
    • Splunk platform performance monitoring best practices
    • Splunk log data ingestion monitoring and alerting best practices using ML, statical/trend analysis
    • Windows/*Nix systems administration
    • Networking background
    • Familiarity with common infrastructure technologies
    • Experience with basic Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
    • Strong understanding of Splunk configuration model, web UI and Common Information Model (CIM) compliance
    • Experience with automation, scripting (preferably Python), and programming
    • Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
    • Experience with DevOps platforms
    • Familiar with the fundamentals of agile project management
    • Ability to communicate with stakeholders of varying technical and non-technical skillsets
    • Experience working in a highly secure / regulated environment
      
      Scheduled Weekly Hours
      
      40

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