Location: Vancouver, WashingtonType: ContractJob #7229Overview:ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. The System Administrator 3 will develop, deploy, and maintain a large data analytics platform for integrating data streams from multiple sources. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.Pay range: $43.08 - $61.55Benefits:Paid holidays: 11 PTO: Starting at 10 days Federal Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) EAP: Employee Assistance Program Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, HRA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer (matching up to 4%) contributions) Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks, Cigna offers fitness discounts (gym or home), and a meal kit program for those enrolled in medical insurance.Responsibilities:Configuring applicable software and systems, maintaining local documentation, installing/updating/removing software, applying change control processes and procedures, planning and preparing for future growth, troubleshooting, and resolving technical issues, and performing system-related training for Splunk infrastructure. Hands-on Splunk administration experience in a multi-site distributed Splunk environment including experience with data onboarding, indexer clustering, search head clustering, and index replication. Monitoring Splunk system updates and planning, reviewing, and executing patch/upgrade deployments. Perform on-boarding of standard and custom data sources in Splunk and have a thorough knowledge of using regular expressions to create extractions. Provide production and infrastructure support, root cause analysis, troubleshooting, health monitoring, etc. Installing and configuring new deployments of Splunk Enterprise and Premium Apps such as Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk IT Service Intelligence. Setting up Splunk Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment. Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance, and stability. Understand current issues and propose potential Splunk solutions. Monitoring the Splunk infrastructure (Identify bad searches, dashboards, and overall health of Splunk). Integration of threat intelligence feeds and with other security tools to facilitate automation. Apply expertise in Splunk administration in UNIX/Linux and troubleshooting OS-level issues. Review and contribute to designs and processes to improve existing and new systems/processes/services using new frameworks. Creating and modifying Python, Perl, and Bash scripts to parse and transform data as well as automate server maintenance tasks. Install, configure, test, and maintain assigned applications, software, and system management tools. Write and maintain installation, configuration, operation, and other support documentation over and above vendor-provided documentation that details system, application, security, and operational procedures specific to the operating environment. Participate in the design, logic and flow-charting, data ingestion, data governance, visualization development, testing, debugging, documentation, and support of our Splunk infrastructure provide analysis of problems recommend solutions, and assist in the continuous improvement of the systems. Assist the management with the implementation and promotion of approved operational compliance process improvement efforts, specifically as relates to the administration of the above-referenced systems.Requirements:A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related technical discipline is preferred. With an associate or bachelor's degree in applicable fields, 8 years of expe