Splunk Engineer – Observability & Automation (Hybrid)

HealthPartners; Bloomington (CA); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role focuses on maintaining observability capabilities, driving automation, and providing technical leadership to improve system reliability and performance. Hybrid work with some onsite meetings is offered.

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.

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.

Skills

Splunk Enterprise

Incident response

Monitoring & observability

Dashboards & alerts

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk ITSI

Splunk Observability Cloud

Job description

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

The role focuses on maintaining observability capabilities, driving automation, and providing technical leadership to improve system reliability and performance. Hybrid work with some onsite meetings is offered.