Sr Engineers, Software

About the role

Sr. Engineer, Software – Splunk Systems, Frisco, TX. Telecommuting is allowed, but candidates must work from the Frisco location at least 3‑4 days a week. No additional national or international travel is expected.

• Analyze and tune Splunk application and servers to maximize system performance.
• Deploy Splunk configurations for data onboarding and maintenance/upgrade activities.
• Implement off‑the‑shelf and custom monitoring solutions to detect and resolve platform issues.
• Respond to Splunk incidents, including those outside business hours.
• Educate and respond to user inquiries about Splunk.
• Collaborate with the Automation team to manage multiple Splunk deployments.
• Participate in design discussions with principals and cross‑functional teams.
• Support on‑call rotation to maintain Splunk platform reliability.
• Provide support for scheduled patching.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Identify and improve sub‑optimal processes.
• Partner with internal teams to understand logging requirements and align Splunk solutions.
• Stay current on Splunk releases and features; complete training as needed.
• Participate in compliance audits (SOX, CPNI, PCI).

• Master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology, Computer and Information Science, or related discipline and at least 3 years of relevant work experience.
• OR Bachelor’s degree in the same fields and at least 5 years of relevant experience.

• Splunk Administration – proficiency in multi‑site Splunk environments, including Universal Forwarder, HEC, syslog‑ng, indexer clustering, search head clustering, and index replication.
• Splunk Processing Language (SPL) – advanced search queries, reports, dashboards, REST APIs, and scripting in Python or JavaScript.
• UNIX/Linux System Administration – strong Bash and Python scripting, OS‐level troubleshooting.
• Server Patching and Networking – automation with Ansible, network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP), Wireshark, Nmap, tcpdump, A10 load balancers and aXAPI.
• Computer Networking – routing and switching, Cisco routers, Juniper firewalls, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, trace route, ping, netstat.
• CI/CD Pipelines and Automation – design and implementation of pipelines, Puppet, Ansible.
• Cloud Platforms – AWS, Azure, Kubernetes for logging and monitoring integration.

• Minimum age 18 years.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Eligible for employee referral program.
• Position requires 40 hours/week; salary $156,998 per year (base pay range provided).

• No travel required.
• Not DOT regulated.
• Not safety sensitive.

Visit the T‑Mobile careers site to create a candidate profile and apply to requisition number REQ
334375.

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