Splunk Developer

Splunk Developer Job Description

This is a part-time, remote opportunity to support a federal client as a Splunk Developer. The ideal candidate will have advanced dashboarding skills and be able to act as their own project manager to manage user requirements and follow up on related tasks.

Primary Responsibilities:

Development of dashboards within the Splunk platform, utilizing Splunk SPL queries, reports, dashboards, visualizations, and alerts (80%)

Developing business metrics and server metrics dashboards (5%)

Creating and maintaining technical documentation related to dashboard components: XML, macros, saved searches, etc. (3%)

Interacting with other groups who install and maintain the Splunk server infrastructure (3%)

Configuration of Splunk DB Connect App (Identities and Connections) (3%)

Creating scheduled alerts using cron expressions with specific time ranges (3%)

Dashboard code packaging and deployment from DEV to PROD or other environments (3%)

Requirements:

Six to ten years IT technical experience with five or more years' experience developing advanced token-controlled Splunk dashboards using Simple XML, HTML, and CSS

Experience in gathering requirements from application teams and creating advanced Splunk dashboards - 6 years

Experience in writing complex Splunk searches for alert, reports, and dashboards - 6 years

Experience in Splunk data ingestion from database tables, application logs, and static sources such as CSV and JSON files - 6 years

Experience with understanding and customizing SQL queries - 6 years

Knowledge on constructing Splunk friendly regex expressions - 6 years

Experience in Optimizing Splunk search queries to obtain optimal performance - 6 years

Experience using Splunk or other tool(s) for storage projections - 2 years

Preferred Skills:

Splunk administrator certifications

Splunk power user/Advanced power user/developer certifications

Experience applying AI and Machine Learning tools, such as Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to troubleshooting of business IT applications

Experience in performance tuning and capacity planning in a Linux and SAN Storage infrastructure

Experience using 3 or more of the following Splunk Technologies: Splunk DB Connect, Lookup Editor, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, Splunk REST API, Oracle SQL, Splunk Federated Index implementation, Data Analytics, Splunk Unix and Linux Add-on, Splunk WebSphere Application Add-on, Advanced Regex based log parsing

The candidate will be supporting the MeF platform. MeF electronically files 'tax returns' with the IRS. It provides SOA based web services that filers use to submit returns and provides web applications for IRS users to work with the returns. MeF validates filed returns, determines their disposition, and interfaces with other IRS systems for downstream processing of the returns.

TriTech is an equal opportunity employer.

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