Splunk Platform Engineer
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