Platform Engineer: Splunk & Infra Observability (On-Prem)

1001 Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc.; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Splunk environment across on‑prem and hybrid infrastructure, designing data pipelines, dashboards, and alerts to power mission‑critical operations.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalable architectures, and close collaboration with software engineering and operations teams, with hands‑on responsibility from bare metal to analytics, plus security governance and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with Splunk administration and development.
• Proven experience owning a Splunk environment end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on experience with: Splunk Enterprise architecture (indexers, search heads, clustering).
• Data ingestion, parsing, and optimization.
• Dashboard and alert development.
• Experience managing on-prem / bare-metal Linux administration (preferred).
• Server provisioning, performance tuning, and system monitoring.
• Experience supporting real-time, high-availability systems.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the full Splunk stack.
• End-to-end responsibility from bare metal infrastructure → OS → Splunk architecture → dashboards and analytics.
• Design, deploy, and maintain Splunk infrastructure.
• Install, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering).
• Manage both on-premise/physical server environments and hybrid integrations.
• Support real-time operational systems.
• Enable monitoring and observability for high-availability, real-time engineering systems.
• Build dashboards and alerts used by engineering and operations teams.
• Develop data pipelines and ingestion strategies.
• Integrate data from diverse sources (logs, sensors, applications, control systems).
• Optimize parsing, indexing, and search performance.
• Partner with software engineering leadership.
• Work closely with Software Engineering Managers and system teams.
• Translate operational requirements into scalable Splunk solutions.
• Performance tuning and system reliability.
• Identify bottlenecks across infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Ensure high availability, redundancy, and system resilience.
• Security, governance, and access control.
• Implement role‑based access and data governance best practices.
• Maintain compliance with enterprise security standards.
• Continuous improvement.
• Recommend architecture improvements and modernization strategies.
• Evaluate tools within the Splunk ecosystem (e.g., ITSI, ES, Cribl, etc.).

Skills

Splunk administration

Splunk development

Linux administration

Python scripting

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Cribl

ELK

Prometheus

Job description

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. seeks a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the Splunk environment across on‑prem and hybrid infrastructure, designing data pipelines, dashboards, and alerts to power mission‑critical operations.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalable architectures, and close collaboration with software engineering and operations teams, with hands‑on responsibility from bare metal to analytics, plus security governance and performance tuning.