Title: Splunk SME

Location: Chennai

Exp: 5+ Years

Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, administer, and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) environments.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, alerts, and visualizations using SPL (Search Processing Language).
- Integrate logs from various sources, including servers, network devices, cloud platforms, applications, and security tools.
- Build and maintain correlation searches, notable events, and detection use cases for security monitoring.
- Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize Splunk indexing and search efficiency.
- Support incident investigation, root cause analysis, and threat detection activities.
- Configure data onboarding, parsing, indexing, forwarding, and retention policies.
- Work closely with SOC, infrastructure, and application teams to enhance monitoring and security visibility.
- Perform platform upgrades, patching, and capacity planning.
- Prepare technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge base articles.





Required Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise administration and engineering.
- Robust expertise in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and SIEM implementations.
- Advanced knowledge of SPL (Search Processing Language).
- Experience integrating Windows, Linux, network, cloud, and application logs.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, threat detection, MITRE Telecommunication&CK;, and incident response.
- Experience with Universal Forwarders, Indexers, Search Heads, Deployment Server, and Cluster Management.
- Knowledge of scripting (Python, Shell, or PowerShell) for automation is an added advantage.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and security

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