Splunk Engineer

Hutchinson Health; BLOOMINGTON (MN); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthPartners is seeking a Splunk Engineer to support enterprise monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboard development, troubleshooting, and Splunk platform administration across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and support teams.

The role maintains and advances observability capabilities to proactively identify issues, improve performance, and respond to incidents in real time. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and Agile delivery are key.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Six (6) years of engineering experience.
• Four (4) years of experience supporting and operating production platforms, including monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, apps, data inputs, and RBAC.
• Demonstrated initiative, ability to work independently and deliver results.
• Proven collaboration across cross-functional technical teams.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience using source control and deployment tools to manage Splunk configurations and platform changes.
• Working knowledge of networking, storage, OS, and virtualization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Experience working within Agile development environments.

Responsibilities

• Automates repeatable Splunk administration, deployment, validation, and maintenance tasks.
• Installs, configures, upgrades, and operates Splunk Enterprise components, applications, and supporting tools.
• Maintains performance, availability, capacity, and scalability of distributed Splunk environments.
• Onboards and validates data sources; develops searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports for operational visibility.
• Troubleshoots development and production problems across environments and platforms.
• Participates in high availability and disaster recovery testing.
• Creates and maintains platform standards, diagrams, procedures, and documentation.
• Guides and mentors junior staff.
• Participates in rotating on-call pool.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Splunk engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident response

Dashboards & visualization

Agile development

Observability

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk ITSI

Job description

HealthPartners is hiring a Splunk Engineer. This role supports enterprise monitoring, observability, alerting, dashboard development, troubleshooting, and Splunk platform administration across application, infrastructure, cloud, and support teams.

The Splunk Engineer is responsible for maintaining and advancing HealthPartners' observability capabilities, helping teams proactively identify issues, improve system performance, and respond to incidents in real time. As use of the Splunk platform continues to expand across the organization, this position plays a key role in ensuring the reliability, stability, and performance of critical business applications and technology services.

Working closely with application, infrastructure, cloud, and operations teams, the Engineer designs and supports monitoring and alerting solutions, develops dashboards and visualizations, builds platform integrations, and drives automation efforts that improve operational efficiency. This role also provides technical leadership, promotes observability best practices, and serves as a subject matter expert for platform reliability and monitoring.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Six (6) years of engineering experience
• Four (4) years of experience supporting and operating production platforms, including monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience administering Splunk Enterprise, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, apps, data inputs, and role-based access.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, independently manage work, and deliver results.
• Proven collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional technical teams.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new technologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience using source control and deployment tools to manage Splunk configurations, applications, and platform changes.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure components including networking, storage, operating systems, and virtualized environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience working within Agile development and delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Splunk Observability Cloud (Splunk O11y)
• Experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
• Knowledge of networking, security, databases, or virtualization
• Splunk certification, such as Splunk Core Certified Power User or Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin.

Hours/Location:

• M-F; core business hours
• This position offers a hybrid work arrangement and can be performed largely remotely. Preference will be given to local candidates who can attend occasional onsite meetings, workgroup sessions, and team events as needed.

Compensation Range:

• $55.00 - $82.50 hourly
  • Compensation is based on the level and requirements of the role. Pay within our ranges may also be determined by education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities as well as internal equity. Hired candidates may be eligible to receive additional compensation based on role (e.g., shift differential, bonus, sales incentive, productivity pay, etc.).

Responsibilities:

• Automates repeatable Splunk administration, deployment, validation, and maintenance tasks.
• Installs, configures, upgrades, and operates Splunk Enterprise components, applications, and supporting tools.
• Maintains the performance, availability, capacity, and scalability of distributed Splunk environments.
• Onboards and validates data sources; develops searches, alerts, dashboards, and reports that support operational visibility.
• Troubleshoots development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.
• Participates within high availability and disaster recovery testing.
• Creates and maintains platform standards, architecture diagrams, support procedures, and operational documentation.
• Guides and mentors junior level staff.
• Participates in a rotating on-call pool.
• Performs other duties as assigned.