Senior Splunk Engineer

@ NTT DATA Europe & Latam

Who We Are

By joining our project, you will work on a European Commission initiative to create a modern, efficient, and secure customs environment within the European Union. This 5-year initiative focuses on digitalizing customs processes, streamlining procedures to ease trade, harmonizing customs rules across EU member states, and combating fraud. This role offers a meaningful impact, professional growth, and exposure to cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Splunk Enterprise and apps across distributed environments.
• Design and implement scalable Splunk architectures for high-volume data ingestion and analysis.
• Develop and maintain data onboarding processes, including parsing, indexing, and field extractions.
• Create and optimize dashboards, alerts, and reports for operational and security use cases.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture monitoring and logging requirements.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of the Splunk platform.
• Automate routine tasks and deployments using scripts and configuration management tools.
• Provide Level 3 support and participate in incident response for Splunk-related issues.
• Maintain thorough documentation for architecture, configurations, and standard operating procedures.

What You'll Bring Along

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of related experience with enterprise Splunk environments.
• Proven expertise in deploying, configuring, and scaling Splunk.
• Strong understanding of Splunk components including indexers, search heads, forwarders, and deployment servers.
• Experience with data ingestion, field extractions, search processing, and knowledge objects.
• Familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) or IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a plus.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation.
• Solid understanding of networking, system logs, and security event data.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and performance optimization.
• Strong communication skills and effective collaboration across teams.
• Relevant certifications such as Splunk Core Certified Power User, Admin, or Architect are advantageous.
• Excellent command of English; additional European languages are a plus.

Key skills/competency

• Splunk
• Enterprise Security
• Data Ingestion
• Scripting
• Automation
• Architecture
• Dashboarding
• Troubleshooting
• Documentation
• Collaboration