Splunk Administrator / Security Infrastructure Engineer
A great opportunity for a Splunk Administrator / Security Infrastructure Engineer to be a part of leading, international investment bank in Montreal. This role is ideal for a keen technologist, who has a proactive attitude and desire to learn & work with new technologies across security infrastructure.
Their globally distributed squad is responsible for delivering a security analytics platform using the Splunk product. Their key stakeholders are cyber teams including security response, investigations, and insider threat.
They are seeking a security infrastructure engineering specialist to help maintain the platform. This is challenging role with a steep learning curve which, with the help of a friendly and supportive squad, will transform your technical skills.
Responsibilities:
- A successful applicant will contribute to a number of important initiatives including:
- Onboarding new datasources with appropriate field extractions
- Developing automation tools that integrate with in-house developed configuration management frameworks and APIs
- Providing consultancy to internal clients and stakeholders
- Identifying and implementing tuning to improve performance
- Working as a top-level escalation point to perform complex troubleshoots, working with other infrastructure teams to resolve issues
Required Skills:
- Degree or college diploma in relevant subject such as computer science, programming, or cyber security
- 3+ years in relevant industry experience
- Infrastructure automation and integration experience, ideally using Python and Ansible
- A solid understanding of O/S and networking concepts: Linux/Unix system administration, HTTP and encryption
- Good understanding of software version control, deployment & build tools using DevOps SDLC practices (Git, Jenkins, Jira)
- Understanding/appreciation across infrastructure technologies such as loadbalancers, firewalls, TCP/ICP and webservers.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Appreciation of Agile methodologies, specifically Kanban
Desired Skills:
- Prior experience deploying and managing large-scale data analytics platforms
- Data engineering and configuration experience inc. writing and testing field extractions using regular expressions
- Log data transport technologies such as Kafka and syslog
- Splunk certified administrator and/or architect
- Experience using the Elastic Stack
