NITYA Software Solutions Inc · 9 hours ago
Senior Splunk Infrastructure Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
15+ years expNITYA Software Solutions Inc is looking for a Senior Splunk Infrastructure Engineer to join their team in Charlotte, NC. The role involves managing large-scale logging and monitoring platforms, specifically focusing on maintaining and optimizing Splunk infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform while collaborating with Observability engineers.
ConsultingInformation TechnologySoftware
Hiring Manager
Vineeth Goud
Responsibilities
Splunk Administration: Manage the health, performance, and stability of multiple Splunk clusters (Search Head Clusters, Indexer Clusters, and Heavy Forwarders)
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Support: maintain and support the underlying infrastructure for Splunk ES, ensuring optimal performance for security operations
Heavy Forwarder & Pipeline Management: Manage applications, parsing rules, and data pipelines on Heavy Forwarders to ensure efficient data ingestion and routing
Reliability & HA/DR: Design and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies to ensure business continuity and platform resilience across regions
Safe Configuration Management: Champion proactive engineering practices by implementing safe deployment strategies for SaltStack configurations, including canary testing, validation, and staged rollouts to minimize production incidents
Infrastructure as Code: Maintain and write complex SaltStack states and formulas to manage Splunk configurations and underlying Linux VMs
GCP Operations: Provision, monitor, and scale infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform
System Optimization: Perform deep-dive troubleshooting on Linux systems (kernel tuning, disk I/O, memory management) to ensure optimal Splunk performance
On-Call Support: Participate in the on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents affecting Splunk infrastructure availability and performance, ensuring 24/7 reliability
Maintenance & Upgrades: Execute distinct maintenance windows, version upgrades, and patching cycles
Documentation: Update runbooks and technical documentation within our repository to ensure knowledge sharing, specifically focusing on configuration changes and pipeline architecture
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience
Splunk Expertise: 5+ years of experience administering large-scale Splunk Enterprise environments. Proven experience with Indexer Clustering and Search Head Clustering
Advanced SPL (Splunk Processing Language): Proficiency in writing, debugging, and optimizing complex SPL queries to support dashboarding, alerting, and data analysis
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES): Hands-on experience administering and maintaining Splunk ES environments
Configuration Management: Strong proficiency with SaltStack (Salt). You must be comfortable writing custom states and managing configurations for thousands of nodes
Unix/Linux Internals: Deep understanding of Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu). Ability to debug resource contention, file system issues, and network bottlenecks
Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically GCE and networking
Scripting: Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation tasks
Preferred
Terraform & Infrastructure Workflow: Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, combined with SaltStack for configuration management. Ideal candidates understand the distinction and interaction between provisioning (Terraform) and configuration (Salt)
Kubernetes & GitOps: Experience with Helm and Flux for managing Kubernetes resources, utilizing GitOps methodologies to drive consistent and automated deployments
"Done For You" / Platform Engineering: Experience building "Done for you" solutions or paved paths that abstract infrastructure complexity for internal customers, enabling self-service and standardization
Multi-Cloud Architecture: Experience managing infrastructure across multiple cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure), understanding the nuances of hybrid networking and data locality
OpenTelemetry (OTEL): Knowledge of migration strategies from Splunk Universal Forwarders to OTEL Collectors to standardize data formats
Experience working in a highly regulated fintech environment
Company
NITYA Software Solutions Inc
NITYA Software Solutions offers consultation services in the areas of web, desktop, and mobile application design and development.
51-200 employees
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