Splunk Administrator; Site Reliability Engineer

Splunk Administrator (Site Reliability Engineer)

Pay Range: $46.90 - $75.04 per hour

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

• Deploy, manage, and optimize the Splunk platform for enterprise applications, security operations, and observability practices.
• Onboard machine data, build SPL queries, and design dashboards to power IT and security functions.
• Monitor and report on environmental health of applications, proactively detect anomalies, and engage in incident triage.
• Serve as subject‑matter expert for the Splunk platform, ensuring reliability, availability, performance, and security.
• Ingest and onboard new operational data sources, normalizing and aligning data to the Splunk Common Information Model.
• Monitor platform health (indexers, search heads, storage, clustering, capacity trends) and resolve ingestion bottlenecks or performance issues.
• Create and maintain real‑time dashboards, alerts, reports, and visualizations to provide actionable insight into system health, SLAs, and security events.
• Craft, tune, and optimize SPL searches and scheduled queries to improve performance and reduce noise.
• Configure automated alerts for anomaly detection, downtime, performance degradation, ingestion issues, and cyber threats.
• Support a 24×7 production environment, including on‑call rotation, deployment support, and timely incident response.
• Serve as escalation point for complex application, infrastructure, observability, security, and platform issues.
• Lead incident triage, root‑cause analysis, post‑incident reviews, and corrective action planning.
• Develop solutions to meet technical and business requirements, creating design documents and capacity plans.
• Contribute to automation and efficiency improvements for build‑out components, monitoring coverage, and deployment readiness.
• Maintain configuration documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge articles.

• High School Diploma or GED required;
  Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 5–7 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of Java EE and .NET frameworks, debugging tools, and application tuning.
• Experience with Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows Server.
• Understanding of security best practices for multi‑tier systems and application security.
• Experience with application performance monitoring (e.g., Splunk, APM).
• Preferred: experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Python, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Quay, Artifactory.
• Preferred: experience managing IBM AIX, Red Hat, Linux, or Windows servers.
• Excellent oral and written communication, project management, and interpersonal skills.

100% on‑site, 0% remote.

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