Observability Engineer (Splunk)

SS&C; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Matching Program

Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Professional Development Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking an Observability Engineer (Splunk) in Boston, MA, to ensure the reliability of Splunk Enterprise operations. This role involves managing monitoring, ingestion pipelines, and collaborating with teams to onboard telemetry. Required qualifications include 5+ years in a related field, hands-on experience with Splunk, Linux fluency, and the ability to work in a hybrid model. Excellent benefits and flexibility are offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Hands-on experience with on-prem Splunk Enterprise operations.
• Comfortable operating primarily from the command line.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the day-to-day health and performance of Splunk.
• Manage ingestion and indexing pipelines for operational insights.
• Execute production changes safely and independently.

Skills

Splunk administration

Linux fluency

Operational experience

Git skills

Telemetry onboarding

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related degree

Tools

Splunk

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Observability Engineer (Splunk) page is loaded## Observability Engineer (Splunk)locations: Boston MA - One Post Office Square: Jacksonville, FL: Kansas City, MO: Windsor, CTtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R41526As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.**Job Description****Job Title:** Observability Engineer (Splunk)**Locations**: Jacksonville, FL; Boston, MA; Kanas City, MO | Hybrid 6x a month**Get To Know Us:**As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.**Why You Will Love It Here!*** **Flexibility**: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans* **Your Future:** 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement* **Work/Life Balance:** Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays* **Your Wellbeing:** Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave* **Wide Ranging Perspectives:** Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents and Experiences of Our Employees* **Training:** Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University* **Extra Perks:** Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!**What You Will Get To Do:****Splunk Platform (On‐Prem)*** Assist in the day-to-day health, reliability, and performance of Splunk Enterprise (on‐prem), including installs, upgrades, monitoring, backups, and recovery.* Design, operate, and evolve distributed Splunk architectures, including Search Head Clusters (SHC) and Indexer Clusters.* Manage ingestion and indexing pipelines end-to-end, including forwarders, parsing rules, and index design/retention.* Develop and maintain SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, and data models that are operationally meaningful and actionable.* Operate storage and retention strategies; contribute to SmartStore planning/implementation where appropriate.**Observability Enablement*** Partner with infrastructure and application teams to onboard telemetry correctly and sustainably (logs, metrics, traces, and events).* Define and enforce observability standards (naming, tagging, retention, alert thresholds, and dashboard patterns).* Improve signal-to-noise: reduce alert fatigue and increase actionable, well-contextualized alerts.**Linux & Infrastructure Operations*** Execute production changes independently and safely: instance resizing/replacement, storage migrations, network/IP cutovers, and maintenance-window execution.* Apply sound engineering judgment to minimize downtime and preserve rollback options.* Create and improve runbooks, automation, and post-change verification checklists.**Required Qualifications****Splunk (On‐Prem Splunk Enterprise)*** Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise in on‐prem environments (not exclusively Splunk Cloud).* Strong understanding of configuration layering, knowledge objects, and Splunk’s data pipeline (input → parsing → indexing → search).* Experience with distributed Splunk (SHC and indexer clustering), including troubleshooting and performance tuning.* Working knowledge of SPL, dashboards, and alerting suitable for production operations.**Linux / CLI Fluency (Non‐Negotiable)*** Comfortable operating primarily from the command line; can inspect and manipulate files and system state quickly and safely.* Bash, systemd, process troubleshooting, and /proc familiarity.* Text and data tooling: vi (or equivalent), regex, sed/awk, jq, pipelines.* SSH identities & certificates, rsync, RPM packages/repos, tar/zip, DNS basics, curl.* Filesystem and storage competence: mounts, disk space management, LVM concepts, growth/resize patterns.* Practical Git skills (beyond the happy path).**Operational Expectations*** Plan changes with impact analysis, communications, validation, and rollback.* Demonstrate production rigor: backups, change windows, and post-change verification.* Maintain clear documentation and handoffs; leave systems better than you found them.**What You Will Bring:*** Degree in Computer Science or related degree* 5+ years of experience* Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin (or equivalent experience).* SmartStore configuration and operational experience.* AWS fundamentals (EC2, EBS, VPC) and hybrid connectivity patterns.* Telemetry pipelines from containerized applications; OpenTelemetry familiarity.* OpenShift/Kubernetes exposure; configuration management tools (Salt/Ansible); containers/K3S.* Ability and willingness to teach and uplift team practices.**What We Value*** Curiosity and continuous learning.* Strong judgment and clear thinking under pressure.* Ownership mentality and bias toward automation and repeatability.* Communication that is direct, respectful, and documented.**This Role May Not Be a Fit If*** You require detailed runbooks for every task and avoid ambiguity.* You are uncomfortable in a terminal-first workflow.* You prioritize speed over safety in production environments.Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website: .#LI-BP1 #CA-BPUnless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.### ### ### ###