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Goldenpick Technologies

Splunk Engineer

Dallas, TX · Remote

CA$55 - CA$60/hr

Position Title Splunk Engineer Location Remote (100%) Type of Hire Contract Start Date Immediate Project description * The project focuses on enhancing enterprise observability, operational ...

UltraViolet Cyber

Junior Splunk Engineer

Washington, DC · Remote

This opportunity is 100% remote. Work You'll Do: * Measure compliance with OMB Memorandum M-26-14 ... Experience with Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud preferred. * Experience with Red Hat Enterprise ...

UltraViolet Cyber

Junior Splunk Engineer

Washington, DC · Remote

$80K - $900K/yr

This opportunity is 100% remote. Work You'll Do: * Measure compliance with OMB Memorandum M-26-14 ... Experience with Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud preferred. * Experience with Red Hat Enterprise ...

Space44

Engineer / Developer - Freelance (Remote)

Our unique approach ensures precise integration and high team performance in full-remote, nearshore ... You'll be among the first we reach out to when new freelance opportunities go live. Key ...

Space44

Engineer / Developer - Freelance (Remote)

Our unique approach ensures precise integration and high team performance in full-remote, nearshore ... You'll be among the first we reach out to when new freelance opportunities go live. Key ...

Zermount, Inc

JUNIOR SPLUNK DEVELOPER

Arlington, VA · On-site +1

JUNIOR SPLUNK DEVELOPER MILITARY FRIENDLY & PREFERRED - HOH SPONSOR Zermount Inc. is looking for a ... Hybrid - primarily remote. Occasional onsite work required at the client location in Springfield ...

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Splunk Engineer

Goldenpick Technologies

Dallas, TX • Remote

CA$55 - CA$60/hr

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Posted 4 days ago

Job description

 
Position Title
Splunk Engineer
Location
Remote (100%)
Type of Hire
Contract
Start Date
Immediate
 
Project description
  • The project focuses on enhancing enterprise observability, operational monitoring, and reporting capabilities through Splunk.
  • The selected candidate will support Splunk dashboard development, monitoring and alerting improvements, data onboarding initiatives, log analysis, and reliability engineering efforts across application and infrastructure environments.
  • The role also includes working with network telemetry and network operational data to improve visibility, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting across enterprise network environments.
 
Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, and alerts for operational, security, and business monitoring.
  • Develop and optimize SPL queries for data analysis, reporting, and visualization.
  • Create and maintain field extractions, lookups, and data parsing configurations.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and deliver effective Splunk solutions.
  • Support onboarding of new data sources, monitoring initiatives, alerting configurations, and root cause analysis activities.
  • Onboard, normalize, and analyze network telemetry and network device data from routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and other infrastructure components.
  • Develop dashboards and reporting solutions focused on network health, capacity, performance, traffic analysis, and operational metrics.
  • Partner with network engineering and operations teams to support troubleshooting, performance optimization, and observability initiatives.
  • Perform network data analysis and correlation across logs, metrics, and events to identify trends, anomalies, and root causes.
 
Skills Must have
  • Mandatory Skills include: Linux | Log Analysis | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Splunk | Network Data Engineering | Network Monitoring & Observability
  • Mandatory skills list: Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud
  • Search Processing Language (SPL)
  • Log Analysis
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Dashboard Development
  • Regex
  • Linux/Unix
  • JSON
  • XML
  • CSV
  • Network Data Analysis
  • Network Monitoring
  • Network Telemetry (Syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, IPFIX, Streaming Telemetry)
  • TCP/IP Networking Fundamentals
 
Mandatory Skills Description:
  • 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 2-3 years of hands-on Splunk experience.
  • Strong expertise in SPL, including commands such as stats, timechart, transaction, eval, rex, lookup, and mv.
  • Experience building interactive dashboards, drilldowns, reports, and visualizations.
  • Strong understanding of field extractions, lookups, indexes, sourcetypes, and search-time versus index-time processing.
  • Experience working with structured and unstructured log data formats.
  • Knowledge of Linux/Unix commands for log analysis and troubleshooting.
  • Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience supporting enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational reporting initiatives.
  • Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices, including email and webhook notifications.
  • Experience onboarding new data sources and validating data quality and indexing.
  • Familiarity with root cause analysis using log, metric, and event correlation techniques.
  • Background in infrastructure operations, application support, production support, or security monitoring environments.
  • Experience working with network operational data, including Syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, IPFIX, packet-level metrics, and device-generated telemetry.
  • Understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, DHCP, and network performance monitoring.
  • Experience designing Splunk dashboards and analytics solutions for network operations and observability use cases.
  • Ability to correlate network events, infrastructure logs, and application telemetry to support troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
  • Experience leveraging AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and enterprise-approved GenAI solutions to improve productivity and delivery quality