Splunk Administrator _ Stratogent _ Bangalore_ Immediate Joiners

Stratogent Corporation; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,350,000; Full time

Job summary

Stratogent Corporation in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Splunk Security Engineer to manage incidents, requests, and tasks with a focus on incident response, analytics, and operational excellence. You will work with delivery teams to gather logging requirements and implement Splunk-based solutions.

The role requires strong communication, documentation, and collaboration with leads and customers, along with flexibility to handle multiple technologies and urgent issues on shift basis.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on Splunk experience.
• Experience handling incidents, requests and project tasks.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Handle daily operational issues, requests and project tasks.
• Incident response and resolution within SLAs with strong analytical skills.
• Provide detailed information to leads including steps taken and recommendations.
• Check and update ticket status; respond to false positives.
• Escalate incidents and monitor progress; create and maintain SOPs.
• Prepare RCAs for escalated incidents; perform shift handovers.

Skills

Splunk experience

Incident handling

Customer-focused

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Prioritization

Teamwork

Self-motivated

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Job description:

• The primary responsibility is to work on the existing or new Incidents, Service Requests, and Tasks
• Triage the unresolved incidents or Requests to Leads

Key Responsibilities

Process

• Day to day Operational issues, requests and Project tasks
• Incident response and resolution within SLA's with excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Providing all the necessary details to leads about the issue, steps taken, recommendation and any other relevant information
• Ticket Status Check and Update
• Respond to False Positive Alerts
• Incident Escalation and Progress Monitoring
• Create, review, update, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures.
• Prepare RCA for the escalated incidents.
• Perform the Shift handovers

SPLUNK

• Configure and troubleshoot Splunk components such as indexer, forwarder, search head, etc
• Comfortable with Splunk queries to create Splunk dashboards.
• Configuring Splunk as per the Best Practices (apps, add-ons, searches, etc).
• Creates, modifies, and updates Security Information Event Management rules.
• Recognizes potential, successful and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail.
• Triage of non-security alerts based on priority, problem identification and escalation.
• Escalate to designated contacts within Stratogent and Customer for issues outside SOPs, or when SOPs fail to resolve the issue.
• Utilize Security Information and Event Management to monitor data flow between networks.
• Work directly with delivery teams or customers to gather logging requirements.
• Convert Logging requirements into Splunk designs following best practices.
• Perform environment health checks.
• Troubleshoot Issues
• Update and / or create technical documentation.

Security:

• Leads the escalation as a point for security incidents.
• Analyze & investigate cyber threats on a real-time/day-to-day basis, involving alerts review, log analysis, and event/incident correlations.
• Prepare Document and Maintain Procedures, Response Plan, Runbooks, and associated processes for continuous improvement.
• Assist L1/L2 for security event and initial incident response to detected threats.
• Regularly review and recommend changes to policies or controls as needed to enhance security.
• Identifies potential gaps and offers solutions to include internal team needs, product improvements and client security posture.
• Develop reporting with focused messages to enable the stakeholders to understand their and responsibilities.
• Train and mentor, the peers and juniors in the team.

Must-have Skills: Prior Working Experience

• Must have worked on Splunk
• Performing incident handling, evidence acquisition, endpoint and Network and Security Incident management
• Customer-focused
• Excellent communication skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening)
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on different and multiple technologies
• Ability to effectively prioritize, organize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment

Good to have skills: Prior Work Experience

• Worked on any of the IAM and PAM tools.
• Certifications in Enterprise Admin or Cloud Admin of Splunk is an advantage
• Prior training and certification in communication is added advantage

KRA

• Adherence to ticket creation within SLA
• Adherence to SLA in incident/request handling
• Make the incident handling experience better for the customer (internal team/ external customer)
• High quality ticket updates
• Troubleshooting tasks with proper perspective
• Keep the Leads informed of task accomplishment, issues and status
• Training and mentoring peers and Juniors

Soft skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Enjoys sharing information with others
• Team player
• Passion for work
• Learning Orientation