Software Engineer- Applications

Apple•Austin, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Work with various Apple teams to onboard logs to Splunk, understand requirements, develop searches and dashboards. Work on performance enhancement of Splunk searches, dashboards, and ingestion. Troubleshoot Splunk deployments. Develop and manage custom python scripts to integrate with Splunk. Maintain multiple high volume Splunk enterprise deployments. Engage in continuous improvement activities and delivery and operational practices. Provide architecture and design development in large scale enterprise level Splunk operations. Build effective and useable Splunk dashboards, and create, maintain, and update technical documentation of Splunk architecture and configuration. Responsible for the full system life cycle, including configuration and deployment in user acceptance test and production environment. Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for on-going demands. Manage Add-on applications like DB Connect, MS exchange, Box. Provide Splunk training, use case demos to team members and users. Work with business teams to develop dashboards to provide visibility into supply chain business processes. Create velocity alerts for business critical and time sensitive data. Be a subject matter expert on key processes to provide meaningful insights on key supply chain transactions. Analyze data and develop KPIs to empower Apple teams in making data-driven decisions.

Requirements

Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field
7 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation
5 years of experience using Python to develop automation scripts and Splunk SDK integrations for onboarding data sources, supporting observability workflows, and building internal tooling
5 years of experience using REST API and HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to integrate external systems and transmit log data into Splunk for real-time ingestion and correlation
5 years of experience managing distributed Splunk environments, including indexer clustering, search head clustering, forwarder management, and implementation of role-based access control
5 years of experience managing data ingestion pipelines into Splunk, including source type configuration, line breaking, parsing, and Common Information Model (CIM)-based normalization for structured and unstructured logs
5 years of experience designing and building dashboards and visualizations in Splunk using SPL and JavaScript to provide insights into application performance and business metrics
5 years of experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git to automate deployment, version control, and continuous integration of Splunk configurations, custom apps and dashboards
5 years of experience optimizing Splunk search performance using summary indexing, field extractions, and data model acceleration to support faster query execution and user-facing reports
5 years of experience using SQL with relational databases including PostgreSQL and MSSQL, including integration with Splunk via DB Connect for enriched reporting and data correlation
5 years of experience using infrastructure-as-code tools including Ansible to provision and manage infrastructure for observability platforms including Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana
5 years of experience implementing real-time KPI alerting mechanisms for business-critical workflows including supply chain tracking, SLA adherence, and incident detection

Responsibilities

Onboard logs to Splunk
Understand requirements
Develop searches and dashboards
Work on performance enhancement of Splunk searches, dashboards, and ingestion
Troubleshoot Splunk deployments
Develop and manage custom python scripts to integrate with Splunk
Maintain multiple high volume Splunk enterprise deployments
Engage in continuous improvement activities and delivery and operational practices
Provide architecture and design development in large scale enterprise level Splunk operations
Build effective and useable Splunk dashboards
Create, maintain, and update technical documentation of Splunk architecture and configuration
Responsible for the full system life cycle, including configuration and deployment in user acceptance test and production environment
Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for on-going demands
Manage Add-on applications like DB Connect, MS exchange, Box
Provide Splunk training, use case demos to team members and users
Work with business teams to develop dashboards to provide visibility into supply chain business processes
Create velocity alerts for business critical and time sensitive data
Be a subject matter expert on key processes to provide meaningful insights on key supply chain transactions
Analyze data and develop KPIs to empower Apple teams in making data-driven decisions