Splunk Engineer Admin @ Jobs via Dice
placeHybrid
attach_money $150,000
businessHybrid
scheduleFull Time
Posted 19 hours ago
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Overview
Jobs via Dice is recruiting a Splunk Engineer Admin for Pioneer Corporate Services Inc. This role focuses on maintaining, optimizing, and securing a multi-site Splunk Enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain a healthy multi-site Splunk Enterprise environment including indexer clustering, SHC, and deployment servers.
- Manage upgrades, patching, daily/weekly health checks, capacity and license management, and DR tests.
- Onboard data with secure configurations using forwarders, syslog, HEC, and correct sourcetypes, props, and transforms.
- Improve performance and reliability by monitoring ingestion/search performance, tuning searches, and managing storage/buckets.
- Enable users by creating and optimizing SPL searches, dashboards, and alerts while advising internal teams.
Detailed Duties
Operate and harden a multi-site Splunk Enterprise environment including indexer clustering, SHC, deployer/deployment server, RBAC, and full app lifecycle management. Monitor ingestion, search, and storage performance by validating RF/SF, bucket health and tuning NFS settings. Lead cross-platform data onboarding projects for on-prem, SaaS, and cloud (Azure/AWS) deployments ensuring audit compliance. Develop and optimize SPL, dashboards, and alerts while coaching users on best practices. Maintain disaster recovery posture with regular failover tests.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of hands-on Splunk Enterprise administration experience at multi-TB/day scale.
- Expertise in SPL, performance tuning, and data onboarding configurations.
- Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (bash, Python) with networking/TLS fundamentals.
- Experience with NFS-backed indexers and operational tuning.
- Excellent communication, strong documentation, and a bias for automation.
- Nice-to-have: Splunk Architect certification and familiarity with ES, ITSI, MLTK, SOAR, and data-science concepts.
Key Skills/Competency
- Splunk Enterprise
- Index Cluster
- SHC
- SPL Optimization
- Data Onboarding
- Linux Administration
- Scripting
- NFS Tuning
- Disaster Recovery
- RBAC
How to Get Hired at Jobs via Dice
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Customize your resume: Emphasize Splunk and Linux experience.
- Research Dice: Understand their market position and culture.
- Highlight projects: Showcase multi-TB Splunk admin projects.
- Prepare examples: Detail problem-solving challenges in Splunk.
📝 Interview Preparation Advice
Technical Preparation
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Review Splunk Enterprise architecture details.
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Practice SPL query and dashboard creation.
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Brush up on Linux command-line and scripting.
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Understand NFS storage tuning specifics.
Behavioral Questions
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Describe a challenging Splunk project.
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Explain your teamwork during a crisis.
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Illustrate problem-solving under pressure.
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Share conflict resolution with team members.
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