Splunk Platform Engineer

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Splunk Platform Engineer to manage and support a distributed Splunk environment hosted on AWS. You will be responsible for administration, monitoring, and optimization of the platform across multiple clusters.

Join a team that collaborates with security, cloud, and infrastructure groups to plan upgrades, handle incidents, and ensure data retention and compliance.

Qualifications

• Certifications – Optional: Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin or Architect.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
• Red Hat, Terraform, Ansible, ITIL, or security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Administer Splunk Search Head and Indexer clusters, Deployers, Deployment Servers, Forwarders, and supporting components.
• Monitor and troubleshoot platform health, performance, data ingestion, storage, searches, and alerts.
• Onboard log sources and configure inputs, parsing, timestamps, indexes, retention, and access controls.
• Plan and execute Splunk upgrades, migrations, patching, vulnerability remediation, and compatibility testing.
• Support AWS-based Splunk infrastructure and S3/Glacier log archival.
• Manage incidents, problems, changes, root-cause analysis, and operational documentation.
• Work with security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and vendor teams.

Skills

Splunk architecture

Splunk admin

Linux admin

AWS basics

Python scripting

Communication

ITIL processes

Security audits

Splunk ES/Cloud

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

AWS Console

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Melbourne, Australia | Posted on 09/23/2026

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
  
• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
  
• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
  
• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
  
• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
  

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Splunk Platform Engineer tomanage and support a distributed Splunk environment hosted on AWS.

Key Responsibilities

• AdministerSplunk Search Head and Indexer clusters, Deployers, Deployment Servers, Forwarders,and supporting components.
  
• Monitorand troubleshoot platform health, performance, data ingestion, storage,searches, and alerts.
  
• Onboardlog sources and configure inputs, parsing, timestamps, indexes, retention,and access controls.
  
• Planand execute Splunk upgrades, migrations, patching, vulnerabilityremediation, and compatibility testing.
  
• SupportAWS-based Splunk infrastructure and S3/Glacier log archival.
  
• Manageincidents, problems, changes, root-cause analysis, and operationaldocumentation.
  
• Workwith security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and vendor teams.
  

Required Skills

• Strongknowledge of Splunk architecture and distributed environments.
  
• Hands-onexperience with Splunk administration, clustering, upgrades, migrations,and troubleshooting.
  
• Experiencewith Linux, particularly RHEL and Amazon Linux.
  
• Workingknowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Subnets, SecurityGroups, and CloudWatch.
  
• Proficiencyin Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.
  
• Strongcommunication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  
• SplunkEnterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, or Splunk SOAR.
  
• ServiceNowor Jira and ITIL-based service-management processes.
  
• Securitycompliance, audit evidence, and vulnerability management.
  

Certifications – Optional

• SplunkEnterprise Certified Admin or Architect.
  
• AWSCertified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional.
  
• RelevantRed Hat, Terraform, Ansible, ITIL, or security certification.