Remote Splunk Administrator & Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability and operational excellence. The role emphasizes Splunk Administration, onboarding customers, data source integration, and health of the Splunk environment.

You will design and implement technology solutions across infrastructure and cloud domains, with strong Python scripting for automation. This remote USA role offers incentive eligibility and a salary range aligned with experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Splunk Administration and Operations.
• Experience onboarding customers and integrating enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• 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.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) implementation and rollout preferred.

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.
• Implement technology solutions aligned with architectural standards, technology roadmaps, industry best practices, and business requirements.
• 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.

Skills

Splunk Administration

Python scripting

OpenTelemetry (OTel)

Data sources integration

Troubleshooting

Tools

Splunk forwarders

Splunk indexes

OpenTelemetry collectors

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability and operational excellence. The role emphasizes Splunk Administration, onboarding customers, data source integration, and health of the Splunk environment.

You will design and implement technology solutions across infrastructure and cloud domains, with strong Python scripting for automation. This remote USA role offers incentive eligibility and a salary range aligned with experience.