Splunk user roles decide what the user can see, do, interact with Splunk with the access. Three General roles are mentioned below:
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- Administrator: role is the powerful role in the list of roles; – install app- ingest data- create knowledge objects for all users
- Power User: create and share knowledge objects for users of an app and do real time searches. – this is in general people get to create alert and dashboards.
- User role – can see only their own knowledge objects and those shared with them.
Each Organization has a config on having the types of user roles based on the hierarchy, billing, usage and may not be same across!
Splunk Specialist with good IT infrastructure skills, in multi-platform environments, ideally familiar with Linux. There are several innovative projects in Splunk, and various companies are looking for qualified administrators with Splunk experience and/or certification.
Main responsibilities:
- Participated in all Splunk company initiatives, both internal projects and customer mandates.
- Install and configure the necessary components to collect data from DB, log files, API, etc. to Splunk.
- Install, configure, administer Splunk Enterprise on Windows and Linux.
- Support Splunk updates.
- Monitor and identify performance issues.
- Perform data onboarding in Splunk: data collection, filtering, and transformation (source types, inputs, transforms, etc.);
- Build use cases: advanced SPL, dashboards, reports, alerts, etc.
- Always continue to develop product knowledge and act as a product expert.
- Document best practices.
Qualifications required:
- Integrating data from various sources (DB, log files, APIs, etc.) into Splunk (on prem or cloud);
- Experience in CIM modeling in Splunk.
- Experience in managing indexes and knowledge objects in Splunk.
- Experience working with cloud offerings such as Azure or AWS.
- Knowledge of basic security concepts.
- Experience in access management (RBAC model) in Splunk.
- Valuable experience in AIX, Linux (RedHat, CentOS) systems administration (permissions management, security (including TLS/SSL), debugging, etc.);
- Exceptionally good experience in Splunk user support and training.
- Good knowledge of system virtualization.
- Good knowledge of server infrastructure.
- Knowledge of storage, operating systems and networking.
- Knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security is an asset.
