Senior Splunk Engineer
Charlotte, North Carolina
Job Description:
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Job Description:
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.
Position Summary:
Bank of America's technology associates are innovators and problem-solvers. The Operational Intelligence team looks for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.
The Operational Intelligence team within Consumer Technology consists of high performing engineers who deliver technology solutions to improve our huge Splunk environment. We are looking for a Splunk Architect with a strong engineering background, who can help drive our Splunk platform to be best of breed.
The right candidate will join our Splunk Engineering Team as an individual contributor and will be responsible for managing, expanding, upgrading, automating, and improving performance and sustainability for our huge Splunk environment as a hands-on engineer/architect. The candidate will drive implementation using Lean Agile methodology.
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
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
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