Splunk Consultant

DeployPartners deliver high-quality Service Assurance Solutions expertise throughout the Asia Pacific region, we specialise in sales, design, delivery, training and support of Automation and CyberSecurity solutions that meet specific business objectives and technology standards.

We are a leading Australian IT Service consulting company, with representative offices in 10 cities across the globe - www.deploypartners.com

We are actively looking for a passionate and driven individual with at least 3+ years of hands-on experience utilising Splunk. This exciting role offers the chance to work across multiple products and industries, providing a wide range of career advancement prospects.

This role will be based out of our head office in North Sydney. The role will be a hybrid with an expectation of around 3-4 days per week based in our North Sydney office.

Requirements

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

·         Responsible for Splunk system installation, configuration, testing and design across distributed environments including indexer and search head cluster management

·         Manage Splunk Deployment Server, deployment apps, props/transforms, and onboarding of new data sources including forwarder deployment and inputs configuration

·         Perform capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, license utilisation monitoring, and regular health checks and performance tuning

·         Manage index configuration including retention policies, data model acceleration, bucket management, and Splunk version upgrades and migrations

·         Administer user accounts, roles, and permissions using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and maintain knowledge objects including saved searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports

·         Assist in the configuration and maintenance of Splunk ITSI including KPIs, service templates, glass tables, correlation searches, Notable Events, and episode review workflows

·         Perform Linux/RHEL system administration in support of Splunk infrastructure including user management, file permissions, service management, firewall rules, and SELinux policies

·         Monitor system resources (CPU, memory, disk) and perform log management and troubleshooting using native Linux tools and bash scripting

·         Estimate project effort and durations, prepare and submit project/weekly reports and clear, concise technical documentation

·         Assisting in presales activities including responding to RFP, RFQ and SOW

·         Provide customer support on Splunk projects and assist with trouble tickets on live and development systems

·         Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to client teams and junior staff