Senior Splunk Engineer

Technical Specialist-Testing Services

Area(s) of responsibility

Splunk Engineer with 8+ years of experience strong leadership skills to manage Splunk cost optimization, performance tuning, and dashboard efficiency across a large-scale environment. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in Splunk architecture, query optimization, and integration, along with the ability to lead and mentor teams.

 

 

JD:

• Proven experience as a Splunk Engineer with a focus on Splunk Cost Management, Performance Bottlenecks, search and dashboard optimization.
• Optimize search queries and ensure efficient use of resources within the Splunk environment
• Strong understanding of Splunk architecture, search processing language (SPL), and data models
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent Communication skills and ability to handle multiple teams / stakeholders.
• Experience in splunk integrations
• Good to have experience in system monitoring and triaging with Newrelic or other monitoring tools

 

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• List down all Splunk Dashboards across all apps – Perform clean-up of unused ones
• Optimize Splunk Queries for heavy usage dashboards
• Splunk Index level access to be tracked and understand the usage cost (Users vs Cost)
• Revisit all standard queries and publish optimized Splunk queries
• All this to be done for 80-100 Splunk indexes and direct 240+ RTS team
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to lead teams, manage multiple stakeholders, and drive best practices
• Educate and groom team on best practices

 

 

Experience Level

Senior Level