Splunk Admin

Tata Consultancy Services; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is seeking a seasoned Splunk Admin to lead enterprise data ingestion operations across Splunk and Cribl platforms in Columbus, OH.

You will mentor engineers, drive ingestion governance and telemetry standards, and own on-call duties in a 24x7 rotation while ensuring tight integration with observability tooling, dashboards, and data lakes.

Requires 8+ years IT experience and 5+ years Splunk admin; Splunk Power User Certification mandatory.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Splunk administration and data ingestion experience.
• Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Lead all Splunk and Cribl data ingestion initiatives across teams.
• Serve as the primary contact for ingestion-related technical issues and stakeholder engagement.
• Mentor engineers on ingestion best practices, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
• Support onboarding, execution, monitoring, and maintenance of ingestion pipelines.
• Drive logging, telemetry, and data governance standards.
• Develop automation for ingestion, monitoring, and operational activities.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, and 24x7 on-call operations.
• Ensure seamless integration between ingestion platforms and observability tools, dashboards, alerting systems, and data lakes.

Skills

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

SPL

RegEx

Python

Bash/PowerShell

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Linux/Windows

On-call support

Education

Splunk Power User Certification

Tools

Cribl Stream

Data onboarding / parsing / routing

Job description

Splunk Admin

Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Splunk administration and data ingestion experience.
• Proven experience with enterprise-scale observability, logging, and monitoring platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk and Cribl ingestion workflows, pipeline execution, and troubleshooting.

Technical Skills

• Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud.
• Splunk data onboarding, parsing, routing, indexing, and forwarding.
• Cribl Stream administration, pipeline execution, monitoring, and support.
• Strong proficiency in:
  • SPL
  • RegEx
  • Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Knowledge of networking, Linux/Windows, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and security fundamentals.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical incidents.
• Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Certifications

• Splunk Power User Certification (Mandatory).

Role Summary

Lead enterprise data ingestion operations across Splunk and Cribl platforms. Act as the primary technical lead for ingestion onboarding, pipeline execution, monitoring, troubleshooting, governance, and operational support while mentoring engineers and driving telemetry standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead all Splunk and Cribl data ingestion initiatives across teams.
• Serve as the primary contact for ingestion-related technical issues and stakeholder engagement.
• Mentor engineers on ingestion best practices, troubleshooting, and operational excellence.
• Support onboarding, execution, monitoring, and maintenance of ingestion pipelines.
• Drive logging, telemetry, and data governance standards.
• Develop automation for ingestion, monitoring, and operational activities.Support incident management, root cause analysis, and 24x7 on-call operations.
• Ensure seamless integration between ingestion platforms and observability tools, dashboards, alerting systems, and data lakes.

Leadership & Communication

• Experience leading technical discussions with clients and stakeholders.
• Proven mentoring and coaching experience for junior engineers and analysts.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Salary Range- $75,000-$95,000 a year

Location

Columbus, OH

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Engineer

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