Consultant Engineer - Splunk

Key Role Responsibilities: Design and implement monitoring solutions for new and existing systems; utilising Cribl, Splunk, Opensearch and other tools aligned to NAB standard patterns. Contribute to the creation of new monitoring patterns, roadmaps where required. Data onboarding: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing, to onboard new data sources to Cribl, Opensearch and Splunk via Universal Forwarders, HTTP Event Collector, APIs, syslog etc. Map data to Splunk CIM, to meet stakeholder and data governance requirements. Performance optimisation Optimise existing and new search queries and dashboards to improve performance. Optimise platform design and configuration to enhance performance, architecture. Skills and Experience: Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture, administration, and custom development (Splunk certified admin / architect / developer or equivalent experience) across Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security. Experience administering and/or developing for an enterprise level implementation of Splunk (clustered architecture). Proficient in Splunk query language (SPL) and experienced in developing and supporting custom Splunk search head applications for specific use cases. Strong knowledge of Cribl architecture, administration, and custom development (Cribl certified admin / developer or equivalent experience) Experience administering and/or developing for an enterprise level implementation of Cribl (clustered architecture). Strong knowledge of Opensearch architecture, administration, and custom development (Opensearch certified admin / developer or equivalent experience) Experience administering and/or developing for an enterprise level implementation of Opensearch (clustered architecture). Strong technical knowledge of red hat Linux, firewalls and load balancing principles Extensive knowledge and experience of Agile and DevOps. AWS architect and sysops certified or equivalent. Azure and/or GCP experience is also preferred. Ansible, CD tools, particularly Jenkins. Scripting - Linux Shell & Python. Linux OS (preferable Redhat proficiency). Experienced user of Git / GitHub, Selenium, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk UBA, Splunk Phantom, Syslog-ng and/or syslogs, JIRA, Confluence.

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