Senior Splunk Engineer- Software Engineer II
About The Position
This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry. The right candidate will join our Operational Intelligence Monitoring Tools – Splunk Engineering Team as an individual contributor and will be responsible for managing, expanding, upgrading, automating, and improving performance and sustainability as a hands-on Sr. Splunk Architect/Engineer. The candidate will drive implementation using Lean Agile methodology. The candidate will be responsible for assisting with the design of the Splunk system infrastructure, performance management, automation, and some operational support of the Splunk deployments across the enterprise. Excellent communication skills are needed to interact with technology and business partners, to gather requirements and deliver solutions. Develop and maintain automation solutions for the Splunk Infrastructure using CI/CD workflows with tools like Git, Celestial, XLR, or Terraform. Collaborate with team members to design tools to enhance automation within the Splunk Infrastructure. Must be able to work with available automation tools to design effective testing and deployment strategies that will drive solutions to completion. Able to work with internal customers to design solutions that facilitate integration of third-party components with Splunk, like Dynatrace, Cribl, or Syslog. Able to identify and address technical issues independently. Is able to find solutions using available tools. Develop and maintain documentation for the Splunk infrastructure and its associated components.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building, designing, and administering Splunk Infrastructures.
- Demonstrates mastery of the Splunk CLI, specifically with search head clustering, indexer clustering, and general troubleshooting.
- Ability to program in 2 or more of the following scripting/programming languages: Bash, C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Powershell, Python, VBScript, or Visual Basic.
- Understands basic System Administrator tasks on both Linux and Windows, such as: SSH, Remote Desktop, ping, traceroute, etc.
- Understands how to use AI tools such as GitHub CoPilot to enhance their work and drive solutions to completion more efficiently.
- Must understand how to troubleshoot problems and find solutions independently.
- Strong communication skills and tenaciousness to drive vendors, system admins and others to deliver solutions together.
- Proven track record of delivering solutions in similar sized Splunk infrastructures.
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to think of innovative solutions to non-standard issues with Splunk.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience Engineering/Architecting large IT infrastructures of 1000+ systems with multiple data centers.
- Previous experience supporting large Splunk environments in a ‘support engineer’ capacity
- Detailed knowledge of Cribl (Edge/Stream).
- Detailed knowledge of Splunk Smart Store.
- Experience using deployment tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, TrueSight Server Automation and/or AutoSys.
- Experience using cloud infrastructures such as AWS or Azure
- Experience working in a secure, multi-data center environment.
- Experience with other monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Paessler, or Datadog
- BS/MS in Computer Science, CIS, MIS or any related discipline
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role
Responsibilities
- Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
- Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
- Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
- Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
- Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
- Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
- Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
- Creates an inclusive team where members are treated fairly and respectfully.
- Demonstrates and expects process knowledge, data driven decisions, simplicity and continuous improvement.
- Delivers clear and concise messages that motivate, convey the “why” and connects contributions to business results.
- Leads and encourages the identification, escalation and resolution of potential risks.
- Knows and develops team members through coaching and feedback.
- Manages expenses and demonstrates an owner’s mindset.
- Recruits, on-boards and develops talent, and supports talent mobility for career growth.
- Delivers results through effective team management, structure, and routines.
Benefits
- Access to paid time off
- Resources and support to our employees
- Discretionary incentive eligible
- Annual discretionary award based on individual performance, line of business performance, and overall company success.
- Industry-leading benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
