Splunk Engineer (Senior Level)

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Experience Required: 10+ Years

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Splunk Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in Splunk engineering, automation scripting, and operational support for large-scale enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will have strong proficiency in Python and Ansible, along with exposure to AWS-based deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage large-scale Splunk Enterprise environments.

• Develop, maintain, and optimize Splunk dashboards, queries, alerts, and reports.

• Architect and configure Indexers, Search Heads, Forwarders and distributed Splunk clusters.

• Create and maintain automation scripts using Python and Ansible to streamline operational workflows.

• Troubleshoot Splunk performance issues, ingestion delays, indexing problems, and search inefficiencies.

• Onboard new data sources, define data models, and create scalable ingestion strategies.

• Ensure data availability, integrity, and security across all Splunk components.

• Work closely with security, DevOps, and cloud teams to support monitoring and observability initiatives.

• Implement Splunk upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and environment optimization.

• Support cloud-based logging solutions; AWS CloudWatch, Kinesis, Lambda experience is a plus.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of hands-on experience working with Splunk engineering and administration.

• Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture, deployment, scaling, and performance tuning.

• Mandatory scripting experience in Python and Ansible for automation and configuration management.

• Strong understanding of log management, observability tools, and SIEM concepts.

• Ability to write complex SPL queries, optimize searches, and create high-value dashboards.

• Experience integrating Splunk with cloud ecosystems; AWS experience is highly preferred.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance debugging skills.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams.