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Category

IT Consultancy

Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Closing Date

2021-05-24 23:00:00

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Senior Splunk Engineer (remote working available)

  • About Us

     

    At Allstate Northern Ireland, we believe it’s more than just a job.  We believe in allowing our people to choose the direction of their careers.  It’s about you, your future and where you want to get to.

     

    Opportunity is the hallmark of the Allstate career experience.  We invest heavily in our employees, offering long term career development, personal growth and investment in new technologies.  Every day is different, with new ideas, challenges, and rewards — no matter which team you join.

     

    We believe that inclusive diversity is crucial to creating a culture of mutual respect where the strengths and talents of each individual are recognised.  We like to leave things better than we found them and deliver results.  We do all of this while having fun and exploring personal passions.

     

    Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working model with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees.  Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

     

    Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance.

     

    Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working model with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees.  Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

     

     

    Location

     

    Belfast / Derry / Londonderry / Strabane / Remote, UK

     

     

    Your role in the team

     

    This is a Senior level Splunk Engineer role within Allstate's Security Operations Center (SOC).  Responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration, and integrity of the Enterprise Log Management and Analytics and Security Information and Event Management solution, Splunk.  May also include other/future SOC systems, tools and related software.  You will practice and be the champion of Operational delivery ensuring best practices and the availability of our services.

     

    You will actively drive the decision-making process of the team ensuring that appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs. You will collaborate with engineering partners and coach team members, creating an environment of continuous learning, and constantly challenging and stretching the knowledge of the team.

     

     

    Responsibilities include (but aren't limited to):

     

    • Support and Administer Splunk solutions;
    • Integrating Splunk with a wide variety of legacy data sources that use various protocols;
    • Consulting with customers to customize and configure Splunk in order to meet their requirements;
    • Technical writing of formal documentation such as reports, training material, slide decks, and
    • architecture diagrams;
    • Direct, review and validate the work of more junior engineers serving as Subject Matter Expert for requirements within areas of responsibility
    • Provide leadership and technical guidance in project management, planning, task definition, estimating, reporting, scheduling, and workflow;
    • Develop, update, and advocate for the technical direction of product/solution;
    • Encourage healthy debate between team members and facilitate the decision-making process;
    • Take on distractions to allow the rest of the team to work more effectively;
    • See and find workarounds for challenges the team will face in advance; and
    • Delegate responsibility to capable and appropriate team members.

     

     

    So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

     

    • All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK
    • 5+ years’ experience in an IT or security related role
    • Experience in supporting and deploying Splunk Enterprise implementations in medium to large size installations
    • 2+ years’ Spunk Enterprise experience engineering, configuring, deploying, and customizing the tool, preferably both in supporting the application and utilizing the application for information security monitoring, incident response, and compliance
    • Ability to create visualizations in Splunk and custom queries to manipulate views.
    • Excellent skills in systems management and experience with monitoring and alerting solutions
    • Expert knowledge of a scripting language and UNIX command line.
    • Effectively communicate, not only with other engineers, but also with leadership, product managers, stakeholders, designers, and anyone who might have a need to express relevant ideas.
    • Bachelor’s degree in IT related field or equivalent industry experience

     

     

    We also have some desirable criteria

     

    • Active knowledge of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) experience corresponding to maintenance, administration, and utilization of tool a plus.

     

     

    What we offer

     

    As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

     

    Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

     

    We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

     

    We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

     

     

    Closing Date:  Tuesday 25th May 2021

     

     

    Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

     

    Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants.  This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

     

    We are an equal opportunities employer.  We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women.  All appointments will be made on merit.

     

    Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

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