Position: Splunk / Cribl Technology Consultant
Availability: Immediate
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent Contract
Preferred Security Clearance: SC
Sector: Diverse Public/Private Sectors
Compensation: Depending on Experience, plus travel expenses
Location: Remote Work; occasional client visits required across the UK.
Eligibility: Open to UK Nationals only.
Overview:
With the incredible expansion and surge in workload, On behalf of our client Osiris Recruitment is in need of a Splunk / Cribl Technology Consultant. This customer-facing role will involve providing consultancy and professional services to their Splunk and Cribl clients, while also collaborating with their commercial team to determine project scope and outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
Collaborate with clients to develop strategic and practical solutions to their distinctive data and technology issues.
Enable customers to take on future data & analytics problems by providing ongoing support throughout their journey.
Assist in pre-sales initiatives, customer presentations, and other activities aimed at client acquisition.
Foster the realization of business value and benefits for customers through effective implementation of partnered technologies.
Liaise with the client organization to equip product and technical teams with solutions that foster innovation and meet customer needs.
Provide advice on architectural best practices, keeping customer design authority in mind.
Integrate technical and commercial aspects while applying a strategic mindset.
Develop best practice procedures for monitoring on-premises and cloud applications, infrastructure, and security.
Invest in self-development to keep pace with product and technological advancements.
Required Skills and Experience:
Proven experience in designing and implementing distributed Splunk or Cribl systems, adhering to best practices for on-premises and Cloud-based deliveries.
Proficiency in SPL, with the capacity to construct complex, efficient queries.
Familiarity with regular expressions.
Expertise in data onboarding activities including custom parsing rules, custom TAs, props, transforms, and adherence to the Common Information Model (CIM).
Strong command of Operating Systems (Windows, Linux), comfortable with command-line operations.
Experience in creating custom Splunk content including scheduled searches, reports, dashboards, and alerts.
Awareness of automation technologies (Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet).
Preferred Skills and Certifications:
Experience in designing and deploying distributed Cribl systems, following Cribl's best practice methodology for on-premises and Cloud-based deliveries.
Splunk and/or Cribl certifications (User, Power User, Admin, Architect, ES Admin, Implementing ITSI, Observability Suite).
Proficiency in scripting languages (bash, perl, python), application development (java, .NET), databases and analytical tools.
Experience with containerized solutions (Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes) and Cloud-based services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience in maintaining and administering enterprise-scale implementations.
Development and API experience (Python, REST, XML)
Existing security clearance (SC/DV) or the ability to acquire it.
Required Certifications:
Splunk Certified Architect
Desired Certifications:
Splunk Core Certified Consultant
Cribl Certified Observability Engineer User
Cribl Certified Observability Engineer Administrator