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Able to obtain Public Trust

Do you want to make a difference? 
Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

Come Join Our Team 
Cognosante is seeking to fill a Senior Cloud Logging Engineer position in support of VA (Veterans Affairs) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) capability to provide operational input and support for the operations, maintenance, and refinement of VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) environment, execution support for migrating new and legacy VA applications and services to cloud computing and continuous improvement of VA’s IT infrastructure.
 
What is the position? 
Cognosante is seeking a Senior Cloud Logging Engineer in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cloud Operations and Migration Services (COMS) contract supporting the VA’s Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) Splunk environment. The Senior Cloud Logging Engineer must have expertise with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in additional to experience with Splunk. 
 
What will I get to do?  

• Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure.
• Automate the management and enforcement of policies.
• Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk.
• Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns.
• Help maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure.
• Help monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity.
• Maintain cloud network configurations.
• Maintain gold images.
• Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations. This will include working with Splunk Support as needed.
• Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
• Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution.
• Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind to optimize performance, stability, reliability, and agility.
• Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage.
• Responsible for Splunk agent (i.e., Universal Forwarder) deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.
• Support and guide client resources that include Splunk Administrators, Architects, Knowledge Managers, Developers, and Users for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.
• Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on premise and cloud data centers.
• Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers.
• Utilize automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar.

 
What qualifications do I need? 

• Candidate background eligibility requirements are United States citizen or be a Permanent Resident and have lived in the United States for at least 3 years, clean criminal background and able to obtain a Public Trust (High-Risk) Position
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline OR AWS/Azure Certification (AWS Professional / Specialty Cert. OR Azure Expert / Advanced Cert.) OR 4 years of relevant experience in one of the VAECOT suite of tools (Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics)
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
• Minimum of six (6) years setting up, configuring, and using AWS cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards and guidelines
• Minimum of three (3) years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution (CLS)/Splunk
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Experience
• Subject matter expertise with ALL VAEC Cloud Service Providers which currently includes Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with programming with Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, P