>> Hi, I'm Natasha and
welcome back to an introduction to Splunk.
Today we're going to be talking about what
studying Splunk can mean for your career.
In this video, we're going to start off looking at
some potential jobs and salary ranges.
Give you some points you could put on
your resume just from doing the activities in
this course alone and discuss certification path.
Whenever I'm trying to decide whether or not
to pursue a new skill set or certification,
one of the things I like to do,
is search for other people who've
already done it and see where they're at.
This can be a great reality check.
For example, if you see a bunch of people who have
that certification and not a whole lot of
experience with your dream job title,
you can estimate that that's
a great direction for you to
go and you can plan accordingly.
On the other hand, if you find that
most people who have that skill set have
years of experience or jobs in totally unrelated fields
that can help you understand the steps you
need to get to where you want in the real-world.
Here I've got a search for
just the first Splunk certification,
Splunk certified user.
What you'll find with
this certification is that most people
have other certifications and
experience in addition to this.
For those who have gone on to be
Splunk architects and admins,
they've typically gone further in
the Splunk certification path and have
some experience in other technical fields.
You also find a lot of individuals with
this certification and other specialties
such as cyber security,
networking, management, etc.
They didn't get those jobs from the certification alone,
but it likely give them a boost in their existing career.
Another thing I like to do is search job boards.
If you come across a few popular ones,
you'll find thousands of
jobs that come up with the word Splunk.
Some of these Splunk specific jobs such as
a Splunk analyst or Splunk developer.
Others maybe security engineer
positions, business analyst position,
or even project managers or directors,
you can see a few different ones of them here.
According to indeed.com,
the average salary for someone who's
certified as a Splunk admin ranges
from $66,000-$149,000 per year.
Part of that variation has to do with
what job you end up with.
A systems administrator title tends to
pay a bit less than an enterprise architect,
but there's a lot of variation and
opportunity in many different areas.
If you want to work for Splunk directly,
it's one of the highest paying companies in
the US with an average employee salary,
including salespeople, technical writers,
and other positions of $126,000 per year.
That's about â¬110,000, 35.5 bitcoins,
and 14 million or so Nepalese rupees by today's rates.
Even if you go a different direction with your career,
Splunk makes an excellent resume item.
It proves you're capable of
high level critical thinking
and have technical experience.
If you do all the activities in this course,
you'll be able to put some things
like the following on your resume.
You'd say you've installed and maintained
a small Splunk enterprise environment.
You've created alerts,
dashboards and reports from Splunk data,
and you've on boarded new data sources
for a Splunk environment.
These are great pieces to put down that show
that you know how to do hands-on activities with Splunk.
Splunk has its own certification,
something I highly recommend doing if you enjoyed
this course is taking Splunk's free Fundamentals 1 class.
It's longer than this course and gets
into some of the more nitty-gritty details,
and also enables you to test, to get certified.
Currently at no cost as a Splunk course certified user.
Just a note on that,
when I tried to sign up with a Gmail account,
I was able to complete the course,
but not the exam.
I received an email asking that I update my account to
my business email in order to
take the certification exam.
You do have to take the course
in order to take the exam,
and you'll find that that's the case as
you move along the Splunk certification routes.
After the free Splunk Fundamentals 1 course,
things get a little bit pricey.
Most of the courses are several thousands of dollars.
In my opinion, you'd be best
off not paying for those and leveraging
practical experience in order
to get a job or your company will pay for it.
Often companies can work in training vouchers
with their renewal or purchasing of Splunk products.
Unfortunately, in this coursework is
required for further certification.
The course is built on each other and you have to take
one of several new courses for each certification.
The good thing about all this,
is that a lot of companies don't have set
expectations for Splunk certifications
before hiring people.
Just because it's not as well known
as some other popular certifications.
For the common path,
you get certified as
a Splunk core certified user for free,
and then you'd move on to become a certified power-user.
It requires that you've already
completed the coursework in exam for the first one,
and then you take Splunk fundamentals 2,
you can take this online,
but there are fees involved with that.
After that, a lot of people
will go on to become a Splunk enterprise certified admin,
which again requires
all the previous courses and certifications.
Then in addition to that,
it requires you take
Splunk enterprise systems administration course
as Splunk Enterprise Data Administration course
and the exam for that.
This is the level you
probably want to get to if you're looking to
specifically work with Splunk as your main job.
After that, there's a few different routes
that people will go.
Some people will go on to
more advanced level and become a certified architect.
Some we'll go into more specialty areas such as
a certified developer or get
certified to specifically for enterprise security or
Splunk IT service intelligence.
That's up to what you're
interested in and where you think you want
to go with that in addition
to what your company might have in its environment.
Now we're to review time, true or false?
You can get certified for free as
a Splunk core certified user. The answer is true.
You can sign up on splunk.com,
they have a training section on their website.
I would register there complete
the course and then put in a request for the exam.
This is a great piece to add to
your resume just to show that you
have officially recognized level
of capabilities with Splunk.
In summary, today we learned that
there are many different job possibilities.
Splunk can be added as
a bonus to your existing skill set,
or it can become a career in itself.
Certification paths exist,
but there are costs involved with each of these.
You don't necessarily have
to become certified in order to get jobs,
if this is something that you're really interested in,
but it is worth looking at and considering.
I showed at the beginning of this video,
if you've got a job you that you're shooting for,
maybe look at what the typical requirements are for that.
I think you'll be surprised to
find that how often it doesn't
specifically list out that you're certified.
Thanks for watching, next up,
we're onto Module 2.