Splunk Engineer
- Kiya.ai
- 12 - 22 years
- Hyderabad
- 8 months ago
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Role & responsibilities
Job Description: Senior Splunk Engineer
About the Role:
We are looking for a Splunk Level 3 Engineer with a strong Linux background to design, implement, and optimize Splunk solutions for enterprise-level security, observability, and operational intelligence. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining a high-performing Splunk environment, ensuring real-time monitoring, analytics, and automation across IT infrastructure and security domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Splunk Architecture & Administration
- Design, deploy, and manage large-scale Splunk environments (Enterprise Security, ITSI, Observability, Cloud, or Hybrid).
- Configure and optimize Splunk components such as indexers, search heads, forwarders, and clustering.
- Implement best practices for data ingestion, parsing, and indexing to ensure high availability and performance.
- Security & Observability
- Develop and manage Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports for security monitoring (SIEM), IT operations, and business analytics.
- Integrate Splunk with various security tools (SOAR, EDR, Firewalls, IDS/IPS) to enhance threat detection and response.
- Implement anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and correlation searches.
- Implement logging best practices for Linux servers, applications and containers.
- Automation & Optimization
- Automate Splunk deployments using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Python scripts.
- Tune searches, optimize queries, and improve system efficiency to handle high-volume data ingestion.
- Develop Splunk apps and custom scripts for data enrichment and automation.
- Collaboration & Support
- Work closely with Security, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams to integrate Splunk into enterprise workflows.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and training to junior Splunk engineers.
- Troubleshoot Splunk performance issues, logs, and data pipeline challenges.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Must-Have:
- 5+ years of hands-on Splunk engineering experience (design, deployment, tuning, and troubleshooting).
- Expertise in Splunk architecture, SPL (Search Processing Language), and dashboard development.
- Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), IT Service Intelligence (ITSI), or Splunk Observability Suite.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and data enrichment.
- Familiarity with Linux security hardening and system auditing.
- Preferred:
- Experience with cloud-based Splunk (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integrations with cloud-native logging solutions.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Certifications such as Splunk Certified Admin, Splunk Certified Architect, or Splunk Certified Security Analyst or RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer).
Preferred candidate profile
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: IT & Information SecurityRole Category: IT & Information Security - OtherRole: IT & Information Security - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: Kiya.aiLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Enterprise Security Splunk Es ITSI Powershell Bash Splunk architecture SPL Python
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