Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer II
Service Term Expected: 12-month duration
Location: Austin, TX 78744
Note: This role requires onsite presence 4 5 days per week. Candidates must reside in the Austin area
Worker must have hands-on experience using Splunk for operational monitoring and troubleshooting, including creating and executing searches, using dashboards, and supporting alerting workflows. Candidate must be able to support log onboarding/validation and collaborate with ITD teams to ensure reliable data ingestion and actionable alerting.
Minimum Yrs of Experience, Skills, and Qualifications
4 Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
4 Advanced proficiency in Search Processing Language (SPL). Ability to:
Write efficient, optimized searches
Use stats, timechart, eval, lookup, transaction, and data model commands
Tune searches for performance at scale
4 Experience in data onboarding. Strong skills in:
Source type design
Field extraction (regex, props.conf, transforms.conf)
Timestamp recognition and line breaking
Index design and strategy
4 Experience managing Splunk Technology Add-ons (TAs) for data onboarding, normalization, and CIM alignment.
4 Experience with Common Information Model (CIM) mapping
4 Ability to design, build, and optimize Splunk dashboards and alerts that provide actionable insights, including KPI-driven visualizations, real-time and scheduled alerts, threshold and anomaly-based detections, alert suppression/tuning to reduce noise, and alignment with operational, security, and business use cases.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications 2 Experience with Cloud-native log source
2 Experience with security tools (EDR, IAM, firewalls, IDS/IPS)
2 Splunk Cloud FedRAMP
N/A One or more Splunk certifications (e.g., Architect, Admin, Certified Consultant)
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