Splunk Engineer - (Washington, DC)

Position description The Splunk Engineer will be responsible for the entire end to end deployment of the Splunk family of software to support OFR's log retention, aggregation and analysis qualifications. It is required that the applicant be well versed in Splunk technology and implementation of best practices and have a current expertise in the variety of architectural variations of the Splunk product. This includes Splunk scalability, capacity planning, distributed setup, Search Head Clustering, Index Clustering, and performance specifications. Background with storage technologies, SQL Server, Hadoop, platform administration on Linux and Windows and background with many of today's security tool sets (IPS/IDS, AV, Firewalls, Switches, etc.) is highly desirable. Background with Splunk premium apps such as Enterprise Security is also desirable. Key Tasks and Responsibilities