Splunk Engineer
Excellent Pro Group , Inc.
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 104KJob location
Remote
Tech stack
Data analysis
Cloud Computing
JSON
Log Analysis
Regular Expressions
Unstructured Data
XML
Reliability of Systems
Splunk
Job description
- Design, build, and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts to support operational, security, and business monitoring needs
- Develop and optimize SPL (Search Processing Language) queries for efficient searches, reports, and visualizations
- Create and maintain field extractions (regex, delimiter-based, calculated fields) for structured and unstructured data
- Work with stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and translate them into Splunk solutions
- Build scheduled reports and alerts with appropriate thresholds and actions (email, webhook, etc.)
- Support onboarding of new data sources by validating data quality and ensuring proper parsing and indexing
- Familiarity with monitoring and alerting concepts
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and availability
- Assist with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using log, metric, and event correlations in Splunk
- Maintain documentation for dashboards, reports, and searches
Requirements
10+ years overall Technology experience 2-3 years of hands-on experience with Splunk 2-3 years of log analysis, SRE work, * 10+ years overall Technology experience
- 2-3 years of hands-on Splunk experience (Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud)
- 2-3 years of log analysis, SRE work
- Strong knowledge of SPL, including stats, timechart, transaction, eval, rex, lookup, mv commands
- Experience building: Interactive dashboards, Drilldowns, Scheduled and ad-hoc reports
- Solid experience with field extractions using: Regex (rex), Search-time extractions, Lookups (CSV, KV store - basic)
- Understanding of: Indexes, sourcetypes, hosts, Search-time vs index-time concepts
- Familiarity with JSON, XML, CSV, and log formats
- Basic understanding of Linux/Unix commands for log analysis
- Ability to analyze data and present insights in a clear visual format