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Sr Splunk Engineer Jobs in Iowa (NOW HIRING)

Senior Systems Operations Engineer

Des Moines, IA · Hybrid

$102K - $139K/yr

... Splunk, Elastic, BigPanda (AIOPS), Grafana, Microsoft Application Insights * 3+ years of experience supporting largescale Java and .NET applications; strong RDBMS expertise (Oracle, MSSQL); NoSQL ...

As a senior technical leader, you will be responsible for keeping our data platforms available and ... with Terraform, Splunk, and Airflow or similar technologies required * Programming: High ...

Sr Splunk Engineer information

What is the difference between Sr Splunk Engineer vs Splunk Developer?

AspectSr Splunk EngineerSplunk Developer
Required CredentialsSplunk certifications, technical degreesSplunk certifications, coding skills
Work EnvironmentIT operations, security teamsDevelopment teams, data analysis
Employer & Industry UsageLarge enterprises, security, IT opsTech firms, data analytics projects

The main difference is that a Sr Splunk Engineer focuses on deploying, managing, and maintaining Splunk infrastructure, while a Splunk Developer primarily designs and develops Splunk apps and dashboards. Both roles require Splunk certifications and technical expertise, but their daily tasks and focus areas differ based on operational versus development responsibilities.

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Senior Quality Software Engineer

1 point system

Cedar Rapids, IA • On-site

Contractor

Re-posted 13 days ago


Job description

Description:
The Senior Quality Software Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and executing high-quality testing and automation solutions across Transamerica’s technology ecosystem. This role emphasizes test automation, CI/CD integration, and modern quality engineering practices for cloud-native, distributed systems. The Senior Quality Software Engineer collaborates closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to ensure software reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement throughout the development lifecycle.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade testing frameworks and standards with an automation-first, shift-left focus.
• Define and document best practices for automated testing, API testing, performance, security, and test data management.
• Perform hands-on quality engineering including test strategy development, automated test creation, exploratory testing, and defect analysis.
• Validate distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions to ensure testability and maintainability.
• Embed automated quality gates into build and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable test execution in cloud and containerized environments.
• Communicate quality risks, metrics, and results to technical and business stakeholders.
• Define, track, and analyze quality metrics including automation coverage, defect trends, and pipeline health.
Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 3 years of experience working with modern distributed applications, databases, and microservices.
  • 3 years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering, including automated and manual testing.
  • Technical Skills

Programming & Architecture

  • Proficiency in .NET/C# and/or Java with Spring Framework.
  • Working knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming, service-oriented and microservices architecture, dependency injection, and core design patterns.

Automation, Testing & Observability Tooling

  • Test Automation Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST-assured, NUnit, JUnit.
  • BDD frameworks: Cucumber or SpecFlow.
  • Performance & Reliability: Meter, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk.
CI/CD & DevOps
Experience (3 years) with Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift within CI/CD pipelines.
Imp Skills: Automation Test Frameworks, API Testing, CI/CD, Selenium, Java OR Python 
Nice to have: Experience (3 years) testing applications deployed in AWS and/or Azure, including EC2, ECS, S3, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Data Factory, and SQL Data Warehouse.