Splunk Admin

Northern Base; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Base is seeking an experienced Splunk Admin to join our Columbus-area team with remote options. The role focuses on Splunk data ingestion, parsing, indexing, and forwarding across multi-team environments, including Cribl Stream, Splunk Enterprise/Cloud, and observability tooling.

You will drive reliability, incident management, and governance while mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years IT experience and a Splunk Power User Certification, with strong scripting

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience with senior involvement in IT operations.
• 5+ years in Splunk administration and data ingestion workflows.
• Experience with enterprise observability, logging and monitoring platforms.
• Hands-on Splunk and Cribl ingestion workflows, monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud.
• Hands-on data onboarding, parsing, routing, indexing and forwarding.
• Cribl Stream administration, pipeline execution and monitoring.
• Strong SPL and RegEx skills.
• Programming/scripting: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Knowledge of Networking, Linux/Windows, AWS/Azure/GCP, and security fundamentals.
• Experience supporting production environments and incident handling.
• Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Splunk Power User Certification is mandatory.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading data ingestion initiatives.
• Experience with logging, telemetry and data governance standards.
• Automation development for ingestion, monitoring and operations.
• Incident management and root cause analysis experience.
• Integrating ingestion platforms with observability tools and data lakes.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Splunk administration

Data ingestion

Observability platforms

Splunk and Cribl

Splunk Enterprise / Cloud

Data onboarding

Parsing & routing

Indexing & forwarding

Cribl Stream

SPL & RegEx

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Networking

Linux / Windows

Cloud: AWS / Azure / GCP

Security fundamentals

Production support

24x7 on-call rotation

Splunk Power User Certification

Mentoring engineers

Incident management & RCA

Data governance standards

Automation for ingestion/monitoring

Client & stakeholder communication

Leading technical discussions

Job description

Role: Splunk Admin
Location: Columbus, OH (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: 6 8 years

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 8+ years of overall IT experience
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Splunk Administration and Data Ingestion
• Strong experience with enterprise-scale observability, logging, and monitoring platforms
• Hands-on experience with Splunk and Cribl ingestion workflows, pipeline execution, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Strong experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
• Hands-on experience with Splunk data onboarding, parsing, routing, indexing, and forwarding
• Strong experience with Cribl Stream administration, pipeline execution, monitoring, and support
• Strong proficiency in SPL and RegEx
• Programming/scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Knowledge of Networking, Linux/Windows, AWS/Azure/GCP, and security fundamentals
• Experience supporting production environments and critical incidents
• Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
• Splunk Power User Certification is mandatory
• Experience leading Splunk and Cribl data ingestion initiatives across teams
• Experience with ingestion onboarding, pipeline execution, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Experience establishing logging, telemetry, and data governance standards
• Experience developing automation for ingestion, monitoring, and operational activities
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
• Experience integrating ingestion platforms with observability tools, dashboards, alerting systems, and data lakes
• Experience leading technical discussions with clients and stakeholders
• Proven experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers and analysts
• Strong verbal and written communication skills