SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SPLUNK ENGINEER

SpaceX is hiring a Splunk Engineer to help protect and drive the SpaceX mission. Our engineers are responsible for deploying, administrating and supporting a distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale. As a highly visible and dynamic organization, we must value and guard against damage to our internal information, our physical hardware, and our reputation and brand. It is paramount that we defend against loss of control or confidence in our systems, to guarantee the highest probability of success.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Deploy, Admin and Support distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale.
• Standardize Splunk agent and enterprise deployment, configuration and management with automation.
• Help monitor and maintain the logging platform's performance, availability, and capacity.
• Write Complex SPLs to help Infosec and other IT organizations with their dashboards and alerts..
• Troubleshoot Splunk Instances and Splunk Universal Forwarder problems.
• Data onboarding, governance, enrichment and fields extraction for various use cases.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years of experience administering or implementing Splunk in a professional setting.
• Experience writing complex regex for field mappings and identifying patterns.
• Experience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Admin and Splunk Core Consultant.
• Familiarity with integrating enterprise applications and on-boarding new log sources.
• Familiarity with aerospace, satellite communications, launch vehicle, or factory-floor logging environments.
• Knowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM) with a strong understanding between the CIM and knowledge objects.
• Experience maintaining on-premises deployments of Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security by supporting hundreds of users.
• Experience in identifying visibility gaps for SOC detections and onboarding custom data sources into Splunk.