Remote Splunk & Observability Engineer (Python + OTel)

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 114,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

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 focuses on Splunk administration, onboarding customers, integrating data sources, and resolving platform issues with Python automation and OpenTelemetry rollout as core components.

This remote-US position emphasizes reliability, SLA adherence, and collaboration across infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to drive modernization and measurable

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Splunk Administration and Operations.
• Experience onboarding customers and integrating enterprise data sources into Splunk.
• Troubleshoot 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.

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 Admin

Python scripting

Onboarding customers

Data source integration

Troubleshooting

OTel experience

Monitoring/Observability

Cloud environments

Analytical skills

Tools

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Splunk Administrator / Technology Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, and operational excellence. The role focuses on Splunk administration, onboarding customers, integrating data sources, and resolving platform issues with Python automation and OpenTelemetry rollout as core components.

This remote-US position emphasizes reliability, SLA adherence, and collaboration across infrastructure, security, and cloud teams to drive modernization and measurable