Splunk Platform Engineer – AWS & Infra

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 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.