Remote Splunk Administrator & Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 114.000 - 128.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Zusammenfassung

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence initiatives. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, onboarding customers, integrating data sources, and maintaining health and performance of the Splunk environment.

The candidate will design and implement technology solutions across infrastructure, data, and cloud domains, with strong Python scripting for automation and participation in OpenTelemetry

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Splunk Administration and Operations.
• Experience onboarding customers and integrating enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• Experience troubleshooting Splunk infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, search performance, and operational issues.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and enterprise log management platforms.
• Knowledge of infrastructure technologies including systems, storage, networking, middleware, security, and cloud environments.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced enterprise environments supporting critical business systems.

Aufgaben

• Administer and maintain the Splunk platform for high availability, performance, security, and operational stability.
• Onboard new customers and applications by integrating enterprise data sources into the Splunk ecosystem.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Splunk platform issues related to data ingestion, indexing, search performance, dashboards, alerts, and infrastructure components.
• Configure and manage Splunk indexes, forwarders, search heads, data inputs, user access controls, reports, dashboards, and alerting mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain Python-based automation solutions for platform administration, monitoring, integrations, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Support enterprise-wide log management, monitoring, and observability initiatives across infrastructure, applications, middleware, and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including infrastructure, application, security, networking, middleware, and cloud engineering groups.
• Manage operational aspects of monitoring and observability platforms while ensuring adherence to service levels and operational commitments.
• Participate in OpenTelemetry (OTel) implementation and rollout initiatives, including deployment and configuration of open-source agents and collectors for logs, metrics, and telemetry collection.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, capacity planning, performance tuning, and continuous service improvement activities.
• Evaluate emerging observability technologies and recommend enhancements to improve platform effectiveness and operational visibility.

Kenntnisse

Splunk Administration

Python scripting

OpenTelemetry

Monitoring

Onboarding customers

Data source integration

Troubleshooting

Automation

Tools

OpenTelemetry agents

Splunk Forwarders

Splunk Dashboards

Jobbeschreibung

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence initiatives. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, onboarding customers, integrating data sources, and maintaining health and performance of the Splunk environment.

The candidate will design and implement technology solutions across infrastructure, data, and cloud domains, with strong Python scripting for automation and participation in OpenTelemetry