Splunk Administrator

Description

Description The Splunk Administrator will provide support for the Splunk environments throughout all Equifax Workforce solutions environments. The Splunk administrator will work with the different application development teams to assist in the gathering of data and logs in alignment with the team's telemetry requirements. The Splunk Administrator will work with and take direction from the Splunk Architect, deploying and configuring Splunk products. The Splunk Administrator will focus on core Splunk installations and gathering Splunk data across the enterprise to feed into core Splunk and Splunk Apps. The Splunk Administrator will play a central role in data centralization and standardization at Equifax Workforce Solutions including writing code for data collection, data correlation, and dashboard presentations. 35 years of experience functioning in a Systems Administrator capacity is required.
Essential duties and responsibilities Support the EWS Splunk environment (Dev, QA and Production)
Aid in the design/development of equipment and systems in order maintain the EWS Splunk environment
Work closely with internal application teams and business analysts in Splunk data collection onboarding efforts
Troubleshoot software and configuration errors as needed
Install and patch the Splunk environment as needed
Provide L2 support to EWS Product Development application teams for Splunk issues
Raise tickets and track problem/incident resolution with Splunk directly
Analyze and provide hardware and software server specifications
Triage system issues and outages, raising and responding to incidents as needed
Deploy Splunk forwarders across the enterprise infrastructure
Provide escalation to appropriate resource(s) for problem resolution
Initiate and participate in timely communication to stakeholders during planned and unplanned outages
Assist in technical evaluations, proof of concepts, and/or provide technical recommendation within discipline
Provide mentoring and guidance to application teams for logging standards and best practices
Implement operation readiness best practices and standards
Implement ITSI and other Splunk functional addons
Test interoperability in the environment
Provide input to other Equifax Splunk teams
Assist Security Teams with Splunk specific requests
Minimum Education and/or Experience Bachelor's degree in MIS or Computer Science, or equivalent experience in related field
2+ years using Splunk
2+ years technical systems administration experience
4+ years technical experience supporting and configuring application and web servers
4+ years Linux/windows systems engineering experience
4+ years experience supporting web applications, including database connection configurations
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