Job Description

Title- Splunk Engineer

Location- Chicago, IL

Must Have Skills:

• at least 3–5 years of hands-on experience with Splunk development, including dashboard creation, query optimization, and alerting.
• Strong proficiency in SPL (Search Processing Language) and familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security or ITSI.
• Experience integrating data from various sources (e.g., syslog, APIs, cloud services) into Splunk.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiarity with log management and observability tools beyond Splunk (e.g., ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements in logging and monitoring.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical findings into business-relevant insights."

What You'll Do -

As a Splunk Developer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports that provide actionable insights across our systems and applications. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data is collected, parsed, and visualized effectively to support operational and security objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, queries, and alerts to monitor system performance, application health, and security events.

• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective Splunk visualizations and reports.

• Optimize and troubleshoot existing Splunk configurations to improve performance and usability.

• Integrate data sources into Splunk using forwarders, APIs, and custom scripts.

• Support incident response and root cause analysis by providing relevant Splunk data and insights.

• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure comprehensive logging and monitoring coverage.

• Stay current with Splunk best practices, new features, and industry trends to continuously improve our observability capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications -

• at least 4–5 years of hands-on experience with Splunk development, including dashboard creation, query optimization, and alerting.

• Strong proficiency in SPL (Search Processing Language) and familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security or ITSI.

• Experience integrating data from various sources (e.g., syslog, APIs, cloud services) into Splunk.

• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for data manipulation and automation.

• Familiarity with log management and observability tools beyond Splunk (e.g., ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus).

• Understanding of security and compliance requirements in logging and monitoring.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills to translate technical findings into business-relevant insights.

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