Solutions Architect - Splunk

Splunk; North Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Splunk Cloud asks you to join the SAG team in Australia to shape sizing architecture, sizing tools, and governance for customer workloads and pricing models. You will influence the frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling that map workloads to infrastructure across global teams.

You will work with SRE, tooling, and solutions architecture colleagues in Australia, the US, and the UK, participating in on‑call rotations and driving upstream architecture improvements that prevent issues reaching customers.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Splunk platform architecture — indexing, search, distributed deployments.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python preferred) to build and debug diagnostic tooling.
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines to root‑cause issues across infrastructure layers.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain root cause and remediation to engineers and customers alike.
• Able to join an on‑call rotation covering customer escalations outside business hours.
• Bachelor's + 5 years, or Master's/PhD + 2 year of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Shape sizing architecture, frameworks, rule sets, and tooling to map workloads to infrastructure.
• Support high‑visibility escalations occasionally; influence upstream solutions architecture.
• Collaborate across tooling, SRE, and solutions architecture teams across Australia, US and UK.

Skills

SPL

Python

Networking

Communication

On‑call mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree +5 years

Master's or PhD +2 years

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

You'll join Splunk Cloud's Sizing, Architecture & Governance (SAG) team. We decide how customer workloads map to infrastructure: the sizing tools the field uses, certification and capacity work for new instance types, and the sizing logic behind new pricing models. The team spans tooling, SRE, and solutions architecture, with teammates in Australia, US and UK.

Meet the Team

You'll join Splunk Cloud's Sizing, Architecture & Governance (SAG) team. We decide how customer workloads map to infrastructure: the sizing tools the field uses, certification and capacity work for new instance types, and the sizing logic behind new pricing models. The team spans tooling, SRE, and solutions architecture, with teammates in Australia, US and UK.

Your Impact

You’ll help shape sizing architecture — the frameworks, rule-sets, and tooling that decide how customer workloads map to infrastructure. Get it right, and sizing problems never reach the customer. You’ll sometimes support high‑visibility escalations, but your real impact is upstream in solutions’ architecture.

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and Splunk platform architecture — indexing, search, distributed deployments
• Production‑level proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python preferred), enough to build and debug diagnostic tooling
• Working knowledge of networking, OS internals, and storage/data pipelines — enough to root‑cause issues across infrastructure layers
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable explaining root cause and remediation to engineers and customers alike
• Able to join an on‑call rotation covering customer escalations outside business hours
• Bachelor's + 5 years, or Master's/PhD + 2 year of related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure capacity/sizing modeling or similar quantitative systems work
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure sizing — AWS/GCP/Azure instance types, storage tiering
• Experience on a distributed/async team spanning multiple time zones

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