This day-one on-site position is open to any qualified applicant in the United States.

A qualified candidate must be local to Newport Beach, California, or be open to relocation to Newport Beach, California.

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplaces to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud-driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

• Design, implementation, support, and administration of Splunk
• Ensure the availability of data sources, enable log/metric flow to Splunk
• Perform data parsing, enrichment, and filtering
• Deploy changes to all Splunk components
• [reform required source tool integrations
• Supervise the Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
• Ensure availability of data sources with UFs, Heavy Forwarders, and movement of data into Splunk Cloud
• Fix Splunk performance issues, log feeds, field extractions, search time, etc...
• Coordinate/call out with vendor to resolve any potential issues
• Write clear standard operation procedures (SOP) and technical build documentation for maintaining the Splunk infrastructure

• At least 8 - 10 years of work experience.
• Must have skills: Splunk, Scripting experience (PowerShell, Perl, Python, JavaScript, or Bash scripting), and AWS Cloud platform (EC2/S3)
• Nice to have: Linux and Windows with a solid grasp of system administration
• Certifications: Splunk Cloud administration
• Experience in design, implementation, administration, and support on Hybrid Splunk environments (Splunk Cloud, Heavy forwarders, UFs, Deployment server).
• Experience in onboarding and fixing data
• Experience in project management and customer service
• Good understanding of Role-based access controls (RBAC) in Splunk
• Good knowledge of Syslog, and Network protocols

Applications will be accepted until 05/010/2024.

The annual salary for this position is between $43,900 to $110,000 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance, and is subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Apr 25 2024

About Cognizant

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