Senior Splunk Engineer & Automation Lead (Onsite)

WYANDOTTE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Wyandotte Technologies in Springfield, Missouri is seeking a highly experienced Senior Splunk Engineer to lead enterprise Splunk architecture, administration, and real-time observability for mission-critical systems.

The role emphasizes advanced SPL, data onboarding, automation, and secure operations in restricted environments, with on-call responsibilities and direct collaboration with SWPA stakeholders. 5+ years hands-on Splunk engineering in production are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise infrastructure, security, observability, automation, or related engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on Splunk engineering in enterprise or production environments.
• Advanced SPL expertise, including complex search development, troubleshooting, correlation, and search optimization.
• Hands-on experience administering core Splunk platform components such as indexers, search heads, universal/heavy forwarders, deployment server, and distributed or clustered environments.
• Data onboarding and normalization experience including indexes, sourcetypes, props/transforms, field extractions, forwarders, and retention.
• Strong Linux/Windows systems troubleshooting.
• Scripting/automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs, or similar.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD or configuration/deployment automation.
• Strong communication, client relationships, root-cause analysis, documentation, mentoring, and independent technical ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design, administer, and optimize distributed Splunk environments (search heads, indexers, forwarders, deployment components, clusters).
• Develop and optimize advanced SPL for operational intelligence, troubleshooting, and analytics.
• Own data onboarding, normalization, and retention policies for Splunk data sources.
• Engineer dashboards, reports, and alerts to improve detection and resolution times.
• Design automation for Splunk and enterprise operations using PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs.
• Automate deployments, validation, monitoring, and remediation across environments.
• Integrate Splunk with applications, ServiceNow, automation workflows, and security tools.
• Mentor engineers and establish reusable engineering standards and procedures.

Skills

Splunk engineering

SPL expertise

Data onboarding

Automation scripting

System troubleshooting

CI/CD

Git

Communication skills

Mentoring

On-call/on-site experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

11+ years Splunk/infra experience

Tools

Splunk Forwarders

Indexers

Search Heads

Job description

Wyandotte Technologies in Springfield, Missouri is seeking a highly experienced Senior Splunk Engineer to lead enterprise Splunk architecture, administration, and real-time observability for mission-critical systems.

The role emphasizes advanced SPL, data onboarding, automation, and secure operations in restricted environments, with on-call responsibilities and direct collaboration with SWPA stakeholders. 5+ years hands-on Splunk engineering in production are required.