Splunk developer

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About The Role

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Splunk Manager to lead and oversee the design, implementation, and management of our Splunk platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the enterprise-wide adoption of Splunk, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering actionable insights that enhance security, compliance, and business operations. This role requires both technical expertise and leadership skills to mentor the team, collaborate with stakeholders, and set the strategic direction of Splunk usage across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, architecture, deployment, and management of the Splunk Enterprise platform.
• Oversee a team of Splunk engineers/analysts, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance management.
• Define Splunk governance, best practices, and roadmap for enterprise-scale usage.
• Manage data onboarding, parsing, normalization, and optimization for logs and metrics across diverse sources.
• Drive use case development for security monitoring, IT operations, application monitoring, and business analytics.
• Ensure Splunk platform scalability, availability, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with Security, IT, Dev Ops, and Business teams to identify monitoring requirements and deliver dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Implement and maintain role-based access control (RBAC) and ensure compliance with security policies.
• Evaluate and integrate Splunk apps, add-ons, and third-party solutions.
• Stay current with Splunk ecosystem enhancements, industry trends, and emerging monitoring/analytics technologies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in IT, with at least 5+ years of hands-on Splunk administration and architecture experience.
• Proven experience managing Splunk Enterprise in large-scale, complex environments.
• Strong understanding of log management, data onboarding, and normalization.
• Proficiency in developing SPL (Search Processing Language) queries, dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and/or IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
• Excellent knowledge of system administration (Linux/Windows) and networking concepts.
• Strong leadership, team management, and project management skills.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with senior stakeholders and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice To Have)

• Splunk Certified Architect or Splunk Certified Consultant.
• Experience integrating Splunk with SOAR platforms (e.g., Phantom, Cortex XSOAR).
• Familiarity with cloud-native logging and monitoring (AWS Cloud Watch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite).
• Knowledge of scripting/programming (Python, Bash, Power Shell).
• Exposure to other SIEM platforms and security monitoring tools.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Leadership opportunity with high organizational impact.
• Continuous learning and certification support (Splunk & Security tools).
• Collaborative and innovative work culture.