*Hi All,*
*Please share the resume at arv...@idctechnologies.com <arv...@idctechnologies.com>* *Position: Splunk Administrator * *Location: Richfield, MN* *Duration: 6 Months* *Business Overview: * *Tell me about your department:* The Operations Department for BestBuy.com is responsible for three different areas: 1. Site Reliability 2. Release/Change Management 3. Infrastructure / Deployments Our group is a growing team that manages the BestBuy.com Infrastructure and Monitoring tools in the public cloud. *Project Description:* BestBuy.com Operations is looking for an experienced Splunk Administrator to help manage our distributed Splunk setup. This position will solely focus on ensuring Splunk is operating efficiently. Tasks will include: - Upgrading Splunk whenever there is a new release. - Setting up Splunk Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment - Identifying bad searches/dashboards and partnering with the creators to improve performance - Optimizing the Splunk setup - Creating new Splunk Applications / Dashboards *Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:* The same as the project description: - Upgrading Splunk whenever there is a new release. - Setting up Splunk Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment - Identifying bad searches/dashboards and partnering with the creators to improve performance - Optimizing the Splunk setup - Creating new Splunk Applications / Dashboards *What would a normal day for this position look like??* This is a brand new position on our team. We envision the daily work to look like the following: - Creating/Testing/Deploying Splunk upgrades, configurations changes, etc. in multiple environments - Monitoring the Splunk infrastructure (Identify bad searches, dashboards, overall health of Splunk). - Partnering with Splunk users and answering any questions they have around Splunk (Creating Dashboards, Saved Searches, Alerts, etc). - Creating new Splunk dashboards / applications for the Operations team *What are the MUST have skills that you are looking for in a candidate?* 1. 3 + years managing a large distributed Splunk environment 2. 3+ years of experience with general systems administration in a Linux environment 3. 3+ years of experience with scripting languages (Ruby, Python, etc) 4. 3+ years of experience with Git or SVN 5. Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills 6. Good verbal and written communication 7. Experience working in a fast-paced large environment with many moving pieces 8. Self Starter – Ability to work without supervision 9. Nice To Have: Experience with configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet) 10. Nice To Have: Public Cloud Experience *What are the soft skills that you feel candidates must-have in order to be successful in this role?* 1. Collaborative 2. Ability to Listen 3. Ability to offer ideas on technical direction 4. Team Player 5. Desire to contribute to overall direction of project *Will there be testing required for this role? If so, what test would you like administered & who would you like to administer?* No *Please provide three industries that would produce fitting candidates:* Any industry that has a distributed Splunk setup where they index more than 200GB a day. *Interview Process Overview (Please include the date the manager would like to start interviewing):* 60 min – on site interview (Skype if needed for not local candidates) **Please note: Manager will be considering Local Candidates FIRST *** *Thanks and Regards* *Arvind Nagar* *Sr. Technical Recruiter * *Email- arv...@idctechnologies.com <arv...@idctechnologies.com>* *Direct-408-457-9381 Ext-4073 !! Gtalk- arvindnagar.777 !! Yahoo- * *arvindnagar951* *Web: **www.idctechnologies.com* <http://www.idctechnologies.com/> *IDC Technologies, Inc.,1851 McCarthy Boulevard, Suite 116, Milpitas, CA , USA, 95035* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to us_itgroups+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to us_itgroups@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
