(Feel free to link to me - Dal Jeanis - and I'll help you however I can, Splunk or not.) That will help you no matter what the details of your coming career. Okay, first, get your profile on Linkedin and start building your network. it’s a simple win for a company to get a brain they don’t have to actually pay for six months, so you can probably have a better chance to upskill through that program.Īlso, post-mil, when pushing for remote, perhaps you’ll most likely want to focus on Linux and Cloud.Īlso, I know it may sound daunting that I listed the equivalent of four certs to prepare you for success prior to Skillbridge (and after), but if you want something bad, you put the work in, no way around that. That way your final six months on Skillbridge is training you for success in your next career, while you’re still paid and protected by the mil. BUT once that’s done, and you have the basics of a network tech, a security analyst, or a cloud tech THEN why not find a small Splunk contracting company (if that’s really want you want your skill of focus to be), or a large company with Splunk needs that is willing to take the risk on training you via the DoD SkillBridge program? You’ll probably need to slog through Networking fundamentals if you really don’t have the base knowledge of computers in an enterprise environment. It will roll around in your mind, and get attached to things and accrete to your manner of approaching problems. It may seem extraneous, but the things you learn while working with the various bits that you will have to touch will make your conversations more interesting to the potential employer, and will help guide you away from serious boo-boos. Use those boxes to practice things like populating your superawesome dashboards and savedsearches to the remote Splunk servers from your home instance using SSH, then rsync, then github. (Last I looked GCP didn't have a free tier). Set up a free tier AWS and Azure account. Start with Linux administration, github CI/CD, and then work into security. Then, get an all you can eat sub to something like Pluralsight. Since you do have some familiarity with the healthcare industry, I would try to stay close, so that your domain of expertise can assist you in identifying viable business cases, or at least help you guide your users toward telling you what they need. So that's a good place to start if that interests you. There is a lot of hiring in the security sector right now, and MSSP/MDR services are still hot. Pick an IT specialty: systems, security, networking, app dev etc etc and get as familiar as you can afford with that specialty. ![]() It _can_ be, if you're attached to an MSSP or similar service where you are just hacking at SPL all day, but this is unlikely, and you will find yourself stymied frequently if you have no familiarity with systems. I wouldn't think of Splunk as a core skill.
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