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# Splunk Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Netbuilder Inc.
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Salary:** $80,000.0 - $130,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Linux, Github, Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Ansible, Data Logging, Scripting, Data Ingestion, Indexer, Git Flow, Api Design, Terraform, Splunk, Api Management, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f7b5030259fe586f

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 2+ years' experience in an operational/support role

 * 1+ year hands-on Splunk experience
 * Experience with data ingestion, onboarding, and pipeline support
 * Hands-on with:
 * SPL (searches, alerts, dashboards)
 * Splunk configs (indexes, inputs, props/transforms)
 * Python scripting and basic API development experience
 * Familiarity with:
 * Splunk clusters and automation
 * Linux systems & Git workflows
 * AWS, Terraform
 * Salt or Ansible
 * Understanding of observability principles (logging, metrics, sampling, retention)
 * Exposure to ingest tools (e.g. Cribl, Logstash) is a plus, not essential
 * Exposure to CI/CD tools (Jules, GitHub actions) is a plus, not essential
 * Exposure to chaos engineering (e.g. Gremlin)
 * Exposure to AI concepts, creating skills and understanding of MCP is a plus
 * Splunk Power User and/or Admin certifications are a plus, but not required

## Description

* Support data ingestion and onboarding, including Edge Processors and Ingest Actions
 * Maintain and optimise ingestion pipelines across logs, metrics, and events
 * High understanding of Splunk configurations and their optimization/impact for various conditions
 * Ability to use Splunk for actionable alerts, and understand how to leverage observability tooling for operational visibility
 * Implement parsing, enrichment, filtering, redaction, and data quality controls
 * Monitor platform health and troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, and search issues
 * Contribute to observability improvements (logging, metrics, alerting)
 * Ability to use a variety of coding languages to support custom automations, actions and healing to maintain platform uptime
 * Support cluster automation, API integrations, and platform tooling
 * Work with AWS, Terraform, Salt/Ansible, and CI/CD practices
 * Participate in production support, incident response, and on-call rotation


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