Remote Splunk Administrator & Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability (Long-term/Short-term)

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and modernization efforts. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, onboarding customers, data integration, and Python automation.

OpenTelemetry implementation and telemetry collection across distributed environments are highly desirable, with responsibilities spanning infrastructure, cloud, and security domains. Remote-USA work option.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on Splunk Administration and Operations.
• Strong experience onboarding customers and integrating data sources into Splunk.
• Experience troubleshooting Splunk infrastructure and ingestion pipelines.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and enterprise log management.
• Knowledge of infrastructure technologies including systems, storage, networking, and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Splunk platform for high availability and performance.
• Onboard new customers and integrate enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, search performance, dashboards, and alerts.
• Develop Python-based automation for administration, monitoring, and reporting.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, and cloud teams.

Skills

Splunk Administration

Python scripting

OpenTelemetry

Monitoring & observability

Troubleshooting

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and modernization efforts. The role emphasizes Splunk administration, onboarding customers, data integration, and Python automation.

OpenTelemetry implementation and telemetry collection across distributed environments are highly desirable, with responsibilities spanning infrastructure, cloud, and security domains. Remote-USA work option.