Splunk Engineer

HealthPartners•Bloomington, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

HealthPartners is hiring a Splunk Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboard development, troubleshooting, and Splunk platform administration across application, infrastructure, cloud, and support teams. The role maintains and advances the organization’s observability capabilities so teams can identify issues proactively, improve system performance, and respond to incidents in real time. As Splunk use expands, the Engineer helps ensure the reliability, stability, and performance of critical business applications and technology services. Working with application, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams, the Engineer designs and supports monitoring and alerting solutions, develops dashboards and visualizations, builds platform integrations, and advances automation to improve operational efficiency. The role also provides technical leadership, promotes observability best practices, and serves as a subject matter expert in platform reliability and monitoring. The position follows core business hours Monday through Friday, offers a hybrid arrangement, and can be performed largely remotely. Local candidates are preferred for occasional onsite meetings, workgroup sessions, and team events. Participation in a rotating on-call pool is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Six years of engineering experience.
Four years of experience supporting and operating production platforms, including monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, and incident response.
Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, apps, data inputs, and role-based access.
Ability to take initiative, independently manage work, and deliver results.
Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional technical teams.
Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and processes.
Experience using source control and deployment tools to manage Splunk configurations, applications, and platform changes.
Working knowledge of infrastructure components, including networking, storage, operating systems, and virtualized environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Experience working within Agile development and delivery environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk O11y).
Experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
Knowledge of networking, security, databases, or virtualization.
Splunk certification, such as Splunk Core Certified Power User or Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin.

Responsibilities

Automate repeatable Splunk administration, deployment, validation, and maintenance tasks.
Install, configure, upgrade, and operate Splunk Enterprise components, applications, and supporting tools.
Maintain the performance, availability, capacity, and scalability of distributed Splunk environments.
Onboard and validate data sources; develop searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports that support operational visibility.
Troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
Participate in high availability and disaster recovery testing.
Create and maintain platform standards, architecture diagrams, support procedures, and operational documentation.
Guide and mentor junior-level staff.
Participate in a rotating on-call pool.
Perform other duties as assigned.