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Splunk Platform Engineer
Netbuilder · Houston, TX, United States
Houston, TX, United StatesExp: 1+ yrs80,000-130,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
80,000-130,000 USD/yearly
Location
Houston, TX, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
NETbuilder is seeking a hands-on Splunk Platform Engineer to support and operate Splunk in an Enterprise environment. This role focuses on day-to-day platform operations, data ingestion, and observability engineering, contributing to scalable, automated solutions as part of a collaborative team. The engineer will work on the monitoring and telemetry foundation that enables better incident response, operational insight, and system reliability.
Benefits
Health insurancePaid time off
Qualifications
- High understanding of Splunk configurations and their optimization/impact for various conditions
- Ability to use Splunk for actionable alerts and leverage observability tooling for operational visibility
- Ability to use a variety of coding languages to support custom automations, actions, and healing to maintain platform uptime
- Two or more years of experience in an operational/support role
- One or more years of hands-on Splunk experience
- Experience with data ingestion, onboarding, and pipeline support
- Hands-on experience with SPL (searches, alerts, dashboards)
- Hands-on experience with Splunk configurations (indexes, inputs, props/transforms)
- Hands-on experience with Python scripting and basic API development
- Familiarity with Splunk clusters and automation
- Familiarity with Linux systems and Git workflows
- Familiarity with AWS and Terraform
- Familiarity with Salt or Ansible
- Understanding of observability principles (logging, metrics, sampling, retention)
Responsibilities
- Support data ingestion and onboarding, including Edge Processors and Ingest Actions
- Maintain and optimize ingestion pipelines across logs, metrics, and events
- 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)
- 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
Skills
AnsibleAWSGitGitHubGitHub ActionsLinuxLogstashPythonSaltStackSplunkTerraform
Certifications
Splunk Power UserSplunk Admin
Languages
Python
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
Financial servicesGovernmentCommercial sectors
Relocation
No