Senior Splunk Engineer
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Title: Senior Splunk Engineer
About the Opportunity
We are hiring a hands-on Splunk Engineer to join a fast-paced observability and security engineering team in India. The role is hybrid and will work closely with SOC DevOps and application teams to onboard data sources build scalable ingestion pipelines craft high-value searches and dashboards and harden Splunk platforms for production scale.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design implement and maintain Splunk ingestion pipelines: configure forwarders HEC indexers and deployment servers to ensure reliable scalable data onboarding.
- Author and optimize advanced SPL searches dashboards reports and alerts to support monitoring incident detection and business analytics.
- Develop data parsing and rules and map data to the Common Information Model (CIM) for consistent analytics.
- Install configure and operate Splunk components (search heads indexers clusters) and manage app/add-on lifecycle using automation.
- Integrate log and metric sources from cloud (AWS/Azure) and on-prem systems via syslog REST/HEC and custom ingestion connectors.
- Troubleshoot performance tune searches manage retention/indexing strategy and support capacity planning and upgrades.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- Proven experience implementing and operating Splunk Enterprise in production environments.
- Advanced SPL query authoring and search optimization experience.
- Hands-on knowledge of data onboarding and parsing ( ) and CIM mapping.
- Experience configuring Splunk components: forwarders HEC indexers search heads and deployment server.
- Working knowledge of Linux and scripting for automation (Python or Bash).
- Experience integrating logs/metrics from cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and common enterprise sources.
Preferred
- Splunk certifications (e.g. Splunk Certified Power User Splunk Certified Admin).
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and security use-cases (detections notable events).
- Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for Splunk app deployments (Jenkins Ansible Terraform).
Benefits & Culture Highlights
- Hybrid work model with flexible office days and a focus on work-life balance.
- Opportunities for Splunk certification support technical upskilling and cross-functional career growth.
- Collaborative delivery-oriented culture that works with security cloud and engineering teams on high-impact projects.
Location: India (Hybrid)
If you are a pragmatic Splunk technologist who enjoys building reliable ingestion pipelines writing efficient searches and enabling analytics for security and observability we want to hear from you.
spl,kubernetes,python,linux,splunk
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
