Senior Splunk Architect

Position: Senior Splunk Architect

Duration: 6 Months 

Location: Riverwoods IL

Immediate interview 

 Job Responsibilities

• Provides Splunk technical and infrastructure consulting services to clients – specifically in the areas of Dishoarding best practices, visualization and backend queries.

• Completes tasks in an efficient and timely manner reporting progress to the implementation Project Manager and Engagement Manager

• Seeks innovative ways to improve the process of delivering solutions to clients.

• Shares suggestions and knowledge capital to help optimize the client’s implementation methodology

• Enable and coach clients to support their Splunk deployments

Required skills

• Experience with Splunk Searching and Reporting, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Add-On’s, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management

• Minimum of 2 years current, hands-on Splunk technical infrastructure experience

• Experience with Web Services and Web applications using Java/ J2EE frameworks

• Experience with UNIX and Windows operating systems

• Overall IT experience of 8 to 10 years in Distributed applications development

• Solid understanding and work experience as a technical architect and/or lead

• Splunk current versions experience is required, upgrade and implementation experience is desired

• Excellent troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze and resolve difficult problems quickly

• Clear and effective communication with customers, team members and Capgemini management

• Provide input in the development of tools and processes to help increase team productivity

• Effectively manages scope and customer expectations on individual assignments

• Follows through on all assignments and takes ownership of customer issues

• Seeks innovative ways to improve the process of delivering solutions to customers

• Provide quality formal and informal documentation consistent with documentation standards

Desired skills

• Experience with technical consulting, big data and/ or statistical and analytical modeling