This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
- Develops software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes and contributes to the technology strategy for end-to-end engineering solutions and provides feedback to the architecture teams
- Translates business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies
- Participates in various steering committees for technical and infrastructure service domains
- Leads the evaluation of reference models, blueprints and playbooks to ensure they are fit for purpose
- Mentors and guides team members to ensure system design technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
- Creates an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers
Additional Responsibilities:
- The candidate will be responsible for Splunk system architecture, data analytics, performance management, automation and some administration, for the Splunk deployments we manage across the enterprise. Good communication skills are needed to interact with technology and business groups, to gather requirements and deliver the solution.
- Develop and maintain automation tools for CI/CD workflows using Terraform, OpenShift, Bitbucket, and other tools.
- Collaborate with development teams to integrate automation tools into the software development lifecycle.
- Design and implement automation frameworks and processes to optimize software testing and deployment.
- Work with infrastructure teams to ensure automation tools are integrated with the appropriate infrastructure components.
- Identify and address technical issues with automation tools and processes.
- Develop and maintain documentation for automation tools and processes.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years expert-level Splunk Architect experience
- Well-versed with search head and indexer clustering topology
- Hands-on shell scripting and Linux/Windows system administration experience
- Some expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python and/or Windows scripts
- Thorough knowledge of regular expressions
- Strong debugging and analytical skills
- Good communication skills and tenaciousness to drive vendors, system admins and others to deliver solutions together
- Creative individual with a track record of working on and implementing innovative technology solutions
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with deployment tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, BladeLogic and/or AutoSys
- Experience working in a secure, multi-data center environment
- Experience with other monitoring tools
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or any quantitative discipline
Skills:
- Adaptability
- Business Acumen
- Production Support
- Solution Design
- Stakeholder Management
- Automation
- Influence
- Innovative Thinking
- Solution Delivery Process
- Technical Strategy Development
- Application Development
- Architecture
- Collaboration
- Project Management
- Result Orientation
1st shift (United States of America)