Senior Splunk Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee, maintain, and enhance Veeam’s Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environments.

• Design and support scalable log ingestion methodologies across infrastructure, cloud platforms, applications, SaaS tools, security systems, and business services.

• Monitor and enhance platform health, search performance, index utilization, storage efficiency, retention, data quality, and overall reliability.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, application, audit, and service management teams to provide reliable logging and observability capabilities.

• Develop and maintain dashboards, alerts, reports, saved searches, field extractions, lookups, and knowledge objects that assist teams in identifying and resolving issues more swiftly.

• Lead data onboarding initiatives, including source validation, parsing, sourcetype strategy, index design, field extraction, CIM alignment, HEC integrations, and forwarder configuration.

• Diagnose complex issues across Splunk architecture, operating systems, network paths, certificates, proxies, cloud services, and data pipelines.

• Assist with security, compliance, audit, and operational reporting use cases where precise and searchable log data is essential.

• Define, document, and enhance Splunk standards, runbooks, support procedures, onboarding methodologies, and platform best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Senior-level experience in administering, engineering, or architecting Splunk within an enterprise environment.

• Practical experience with Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, or both.

• In-depth understanding of Splunk architecture, including forwarders, indexers, search heads, deployment servers, apps, technical add-ons, indexes, sourcetypes, parsing, and retention.

• Experience onboarding data from various source types, including servers, network devices, cloud platforms, applications, SaaS tools, APIs, and security systems.

• Strong SPL skills, encompassing the ability to create, troubleshoot, tune, and optimize searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts.

• Experience in enhancing data quality, field extraction accuracy, search efficiency, storage usage, and platform stability.

• Robust troubleshooting abilities across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, certificates, proxies, authentication, and distributed systems.

• Experience utilizing scripting or APIs to automate repetitive tasks, minimize manual effort, and enhance platform reliability.

• Capability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off

• 12 paid holidays, including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares

• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day

• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions

• Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time

• AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost

• Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options

• Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting

• Opportunities for learning and growth through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events such as our annual Global Day of Learning