Role: Splunk Engineer - SME
Job Type: Permanent (Hybrid)
Location: Letterkenny, Donegal (2/3 days on site per week) Ready to utilise your skills in
designing, implementing and optimising Splunk solutions? Are you passionate about
learning more within Cyber Security to enhance security capabilities and grow your career? We have an exciting role for you as a
Splunk Engineer! Careers at TCS: It means more TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.
- Gain access to endless learning opportunities.
- Be part of an exciting team where you will be challenged every day.
- Grow your career, while being exposed to new technologies.
The Role As a
Splunk Engineer – SME, you will support Splunk Enterprise Security administration and management, managing enterprise SIEM infrastructure to improve data ingestions processes, including architectural work.
You will provide overall engineering and design support for a distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles.
Key responsibilities: - Onboard new log sources into Splunk.
- Develop notable events, visualisations, forms, reports, alerts, as well as Splunk Apps, Technology Add-ons, and normalizing data sources to the Common Information Model (CIM).
- Custom use-case development, fine tuning in Splunk Enterprise Security.
- Recognise and onboard new data sources into Splunk, analysing the data for anomalies and trends, and building dashboards highlighting the key trends of the data.
- Upgrade Splunk apps required by Splunk ES upgrades.
- Configure notable event actions, action menus and Adaptive Responses.
- Data onboarding and data ingestion normalisation recommendations.
- Provide overall engineering and design support for a distributed Splunk environment consisting of heavy forwarders, indexers, and search head servers, spanning security, performance, and operational roles.
- Provide Splunk Enterprise Security administration and management.
- Manage enterprise SIEM infrastructure to improve data ingestion processes, including architectural work.
Your Profile
Key skills/knowledge/experience: - Bachelor's Degree / Diploma or equivalent experience in a relevant area of study with a preference for Information Security, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
- Excellent English written and verbal skills.
- In-depth experience in using customer focused Splunk Enterprise Security SIEM engineering background.
- Ability to create, manage, and support automation solutions for Splunk deployment and orchestration in on-site and cloud environments.
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security or integration with other Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms.
- Proficiency in data on-boarding activities including routing, parsing, and normalizing events to the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM).
- Proficiency in onboarding data using Splunk developed add-ons for Windows, Linux, and common third-party devices and applications
- Strong knowledge of security concepts, networks, risk procedures, security patterns, authentication technologies and security attacks.
- Ability to perform maintenance and optimisation of existing clustered Splunk deployments.
- Experience in creating dashboards to monitor the traffic volumes, response times, errors, and warnings across various data centres.
- Proficiency in developing documentation with processes and procedures.
Good to have: - SPLUNK Certification.
- CompTIA Security+ Certificate.
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).
- GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC).
Rewards & Benefits TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature paid holiday entitlement, pension contribution, private healthcare including dental & optical coverage, life assurance and income protection, laptop and phone, cycle-to-work scheme, exclusive discounts on gym memberships, discounted rates on car leasing options, staff discounts within the larger Tata network, and access to extensive training resources.
Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing At TCS, we believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’.
You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join. Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include LGBTQ+ and mental health networks, as well as health and wellness initiatives and sports events (we even sponsor the London Marathon).
We are open to all and treat applications equally, regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
If you are an applicant who needs accommodation due to a disability to complete an employment application, or during any phase of the hiring process, please contact us at Jennifer.long@tcs.com with the subject line: “Disability Accommodation Request”.
Due to a high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.
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