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Splunk Platform Engineer

Melbourne, Victoria💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Manage and support a distributed Splunk environment hosted on AWS, including clusters, forwarders, and log archival.

Role type

Senior Splunk Platform Engineer

Builds

Splunk search, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure for enterprise log data

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) + Observability (Splunk)

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Splunk architecture, Splunk administration, Linux (RHEL/Amazon Linux), AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC), Python/Bash/Shell scripting

Preferred skills

Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, Splunk SOAR, ServiceNow, Jira, ITIL, Terraform, Ansible

Technologies

Splunk, AWS, Linux, Python, Bash, Shell, S3, Glaceir, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, ServiceNow, Jira, Terraform, Ansible

Responsibilities

Administer Splunk Search Head and Indexer clusters, Deployers, Deployment Servers, and Forwarders; Monitor and troubleshoot platform health, performance, data ingestion, storage, searches, and alerts; Onboard log sources and configure inputs, parsing, timestamps, indexes, retention, and access controls; Plan and execute Splunk upgrades, migrations, patching, vulnerability remediation, and compatibility testing; Support AWS-based Splunk infrastructure and S3/Glacier log archival; Manage incidents, problems, changes, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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