Splunk and Linux System Engineer

We are seeking a Splunk and Linux System Engineer to join our team. The role focuses on managing large-scale Linux infrastructure and administering Splunk platforms to support monitoring incident detection and automation.

Key responsibilities

• Administer and support production Splunk environments including data onboarding searches dashboards alerts and health monitoring.

• Design deploy and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or equivalent) systems using Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks in Bash and Python for monitoring remediation and reporting.

• Integrate Splunk with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code processes collaborating with GitLab/Azure DevOps workflows.

• Participate in ITILaligned incident problem and change management while providing vendor coordination and licensing support.

• Monitor and troubleshoot virtualization (VMware) and container (Podman/OCI) environments including performance tuning and lifecycle management.

• Collaborate with security and networking teams to incorporate endpoint protection and network event data into Splunk for anomaly detection.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Minimum 4years of IT operations experience with largescale Linuxbased infrastructure.

• At least 2years of handson Splunk administration in production environments.

• Professional proficiency in Dutch or French and English.

• Strong scripting skills in Bash and/or Python and solid understanding of Ansible CI/CD and ITIL processes.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware lifecycle management NetApp storage and endpoint protection tools such as Trend Micro Deep Security.

• Knowledge of Palo Alto Check Point F5 or Infoblox networking platforms for event correlation.

• Familiarity with VMware virtualization and container monitoring strategies.

• Handson exposure to Terraform or other InfrastructureasCode tools.

Required Skills:

Splunk administration Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ansible Automation Platform Bash scripting Python scripting CI/CD pipelines ITIL incident management Container monitoring (Podman) VMware virtualization English proficiency Dutch proficiency French proficiency