Job Description
What you'll be doing... - Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure.
- Automate the management and enforcement of policies.
- Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk.
- Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns.
- Help maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure.
- Help monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity.
- Maintain cloud network configurations.
- Maintain gold images.
- Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support as needed.
- Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
- Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution.
- Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind to optimize performance, stability, reliability, and agility.
- Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage.
- Responsible for Splunk agent (i.e., Universal Forwarder) deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Support and guide client resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers, and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.
- Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise and cloud data centers.
- Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers.
- Utilize automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar.
Must Have... - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical Discipline
- AWS Solution Architect Professional or Azure Architect Expert
- 4 Years of relevant experience in one of the following tools
- Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
- Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring, and using AWS/Azure cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
- Minimum of three (3) years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution such as Splunk
- Multi-Cloud experience in implementing solutions within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with programming with Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, Powershell, AWS or Azure CLI)
- One or more of these Splunk certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin
- Knowledge of enterprise logging, with a focus on security event logging
- A solid understanding of Cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics
Nice to Have... - Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization
- Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
- Background that includes at least one core technology; Linux/Windows or database admin (for example), with exp. working application migrations
- Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above
- ITIL certification or experience with ITIL
- Must be capable of working closely with the project leadership and technical resources to understand issues and work toward resolution
- Multiple Microsoft or Amazon cloud certifications
- Previous Federal Government experience
- Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment
- Strong creative, analytical and problem solving and trouble-shooting skills
- Strong knowledge (recent experience) with the following technologies: storage, servers, data centers, networking
- Strong technical experiences working migrations or systems development as well as coordinating from a business perspective
- Strong understanding of SDLC concepts, full lifecycle development for systems/applications
Clearance... - Applicants selected will be subject to a Security Investigation and May need to Meet Requirements for Access to Protected and/or Classified Information
Location.. - This is a US-Based Remote position, all applicants need to be located within the United States be to considered for the position
Citizenship.. - Applicants need to be a US Citizen to be considered for the position and have physically resided in the United States for a minimum of 3 years due to background investigation requirements.
Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental, PTO, Sick, and 401k w/employer match
Who we are... Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector. We have experience in working with various federal clients across multiple different agencies. We believe in adopting and growing a remote work-from-home culture wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance. We believe in automating the mundane and investing in our employees helping them grow their careers over time. We strive for innovation and want to develop solutions that we can take pride in and help break through some of the barriers that exist in technology and the government sectors today.
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