Senior Splunk Administrator | Enterprise Platform Engineer

WhiteCrow Research; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCrow Research is seeking an experienced Splunk Administrator (VP2) to design, implement, administer, and maintain the enterprise Splunk platform across the global IT stack from Kuala Lumpur.

You will manage Search Head Clusters, Indexers, Deployment Servers, Universal Forwarders, License Management, and perform upgrades while optimizing performance, data onboarding, and automation using Python. Strong Linux, networking, and virtualization fundamentals are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of IT experience with at least 3 years of hands-on Splunk Administration experience.
• Experience managing Search Head Clusters, Indexers, Deployment Servers, Universal Forwarders, and License Management.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and maintain the enterprise Splunk platform.
• Manage supporting Splunk infrastructure components including Search Heads, Indexers, Deployment Servers, Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, Cluster Manager, License Manager, and Deployer.
• Configure and maintain Search Head Clusters and Indexer Clusters.
• Administer data onboarding, source type configuration, parsing, indexing, and data retention.
• Monitor Splunk platform health, performance, availability, and capacity.
• Perform Splunk upgrades, patching, migration, and infrastructure expansion.
• Optimize indexes, searches, data models, and platform performance.
• Develop automation scripts using Python or similar scripting languages.
• Integrate Splunk with various enterprise systems and data sources.
• Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis related to Splunk platform and data ingestion issues.
• Configure dashboards, reports, alerts, and knowledge objects as required.

Skills

Python scripting

Automation

Splunk SPL

Linux

Networking

Platform optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related

Tools

Splunk

Search Head Clusters

Indexers

Deployment Servers

Universal Forwarders

License Management

Job description

WhiteCrow Research is seeking an experienced Splunk Administrator (VP2) to design, implement, administer, and maintain the enterprise Splunk platform across the global IT stack from Kuala Lumpur.

You will manage Search Head Clusters, Indexers, Deployment Servers, Universal Forwarders, License Management, and perform upgrades while optimizing performance, data onboarding, and automation using Python. Strong Linux, networking, and virtualization fundamentals are essential.