Application Engineer (Splunk)

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Job Description:

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

Responsible for oversight on design and implementation of products assigned to their team. Still needs to think things through but has their driver's license. This means they can take user stories and new features from idea to production unattended. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, modifies, adapts, and implements short - long terms solutions to IT needs through new and existing applications, system architecture, network systems and applications infrastructure

• Creating, and maintaining Splunk applications. Perform installation, configuration management, license management, data integration, data transformation, field extraction, event parsing, data preview, and Apps management of Splunk platform

• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and Windows platforms

• Design core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks

• Design and implement Splunk infrastructure, deployment, products, apps, reports, alerts, and dashboards

• Manage Splunk knowledge objects (Apps, Dashboards, Saved Searches, Scheduled Searches, Alerts)

• Ensure the Splunk environment continuously meets specification in terms of business requirements (SLA's), application design (standards), and infrastructure performance (KPI's)

• Engage with avenues of influence (Splunk product managers, user groups, etc.) to align platform capabilities with business requirements

• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production quality dashboards

• Create presentation layers for Technical, Business and Executive Management showing environment operational health based on Key Performance Indicators

• Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production. Understands the software development lifecycle and leverages critical thinking skills to properly evaluate features and functionality.

• Guides early-career engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of emerging talent, and helps them continue to grow in their technical skillset through mentorship.

• Has an oversight on application, system, and architecture design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.

• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures to ensure high reliability of technical solutions.

• Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills

• Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them.

• Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures

• Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

• Bachelors - Computer Science or related

• 3+ Years - Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Expertise in Splunk Architecture

• Expertise in Enterprise Security for Splunk

• The ability to de-code and debug complex Splunk queries

• Ability to perform complete Splunk environment installs, filter data, and manage indexes

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on May-13-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits:

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Time Off

• 401(k) Plan

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D

• Recognition Program

• Education Assistance

• Commuter Benefits

• Family Support Programs

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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