Senior Engineer, Splunk

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.
 

POSITION SUMMARY 

Sony Corporation of America (SCA), is seeking a Senior Engineer, Splunk to join the Corporate Information Security Division.

Job Responsibilities:  

• Provide industry standard expertise in the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of data and security solutions including but not limited to Splunk Enterprise and Splunk ES. 

• Deploy, operate, and maintain data and security solutions for new or existing entities. 

• Perform systems analysis, upgrades, and validations. 

• Review completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and make recommendations to management. 

• Monitor capacity to maintain operational capacity and partnership with operations. 

• Follow change management processes and team procedures. 

• Develop documentation on new or existing systems. 

• Develop and directs tests to ensure systems meet documented user requirements. 

• Identify, analyze, and resolve system problems. 

• Provide specialized training and technical guidance. 

• Determine system specification, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility. 

• Mentor and coaches less-experienced engineers. 

• Serve as a liaison with Sony operating companies, participating in meetings to ensure stakeholder requirements are met. 

• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned. 

• Lead and/or participate in special projects as required. 

• Demonstrate a passion for data and help users find meaning in their data. 

• Translate business requirements into concrete data solutions. 

• Responsible for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure of assigned projects and initiatives. 

• Responsible for gathering metrics for reporting for upward leadership and lateral visibility for our end-users. 

• Manage and drive the technical expectations and commitments of internal and external constituents to ensure the timely execution and completion of the data onboarding activities. 

• Work closely with users, security and IT teams, and vendors to diagnose and resolve configuration, system, and performance issues. 

Job Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Security, Engineering, or equivalent work experience. 

• Minimum 2 years’ experience administering a Splunk Enterprise environment. 

• Preferred 3+ years’ experience administering a Splunk Enterprise environment. 

• Preferred 1+ years’ experience administering Splunk ES (Enterprise Security). 

• Preferred 1+ years’ experience working with Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. 

• Preferred 1+ years’ experience working with relational database solutions. 

• Preferred 1+ years’ experience with ETL and data pipeline solutions. 

• Demonstrated technical expertise with the following: 

• Splunk proficiency at an engineer or architect level 

• Regex proficient 
• Data Lake, Data Warehouse or Data Mart (AWS EMR preferred) 
• Unix/Linux OS 
• Proficient in SQL 
• Experience with one or more RDBMS solutions (Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle, Postgres, etc.) 

• SIEM content development and maintenance 
• GitLab, GitHub or similar DevOPS/Source Code Management tools 
• ETL/Pipeline tools such as Kafka, Confluent, Cribl, Apache Airflow/NiFi 
• CI/CD pipelines 
• Python, Bash, SALT and Ansible 

• Technical writing experience: 

• Installation/Deployment Procedures 
• Document Requirements 

• Able to interact with customers and team members and product support personnel. 

• Experience with interpreting requirements and use cases. 

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills. 

• Experience writing MS