Remote Splunk Administrator & Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Hartford (CT); 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

Disability benefits

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence initiatives. You will manage Splunk administration, onboarding new customers, data source integration, and proactive health checks to ensure platform reliability.

The role emphasizes Python scripting and automation to streamline admin tasks, reporting, and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on experience in Splunk Administration and Operations.
• Experience onboarding customers and integrating enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• Strong Python scripting and automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Splunk platform, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and operational stability.
• Onboard new customers and applications by integrating a variety of 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.

Skills

Splunk Administration

Customer onboarding

Python scripting

OpenTelemetry

Troubleshooting

Observability

Cloud environments

Data integration

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a highly skilled Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence initiatives. You will manage Splunk administration, onboarding new customers, data source integration, and proactive health checks to ensure platform reliability.

The role emphasizes Python scripting and automation to streamline admin tasks, reporting, and workflows.