Splunk Engineer - USC or GC only

TMT IT Solutions; Illinois; Remote; USD 68,880 - 79,900; Part time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a Splunk Engineer for their Greater Chicago Area location. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining Splunk dashboards and applications, collaborating with teams to ensure effective data visualization. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience with Splunk and strong analytical skills. This contract position offers a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience with Splunk development including dashboard creation.
• Proficiency in SPL and familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security or ITSI.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, queries, and alerts.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders for effective visualizations.
• Support incident response with relevant Splunk data.

Skills

Splunk development

SPL (Search Processing Language)

Data integration

Python scripting

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Splunk Enterprise Security

ELK stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

This range is provided by TMT IT Solutions. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$50.00/hr - $58.00/hr

Splunk Engineer - USC or GC only

What You'll Do

As a Splunk Developer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports that provide actionable insights across our systems and applications. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data is collected, parsed, and visualized effectively to support operational and security objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, queries, and alerts to monitor system performance, application health, and security events.
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective Splunk visualizations and reports.
• Optimize and troubleshoot existing Splunk configurations to improve performance and usability.
• Integrate data sources into Splunk using forwarders, APIs, and custom scripts.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis by providing relevant Splunk data and insights.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure comprehensive logging and monitoring coverage.
• Stay current with Splunk best practices, new features, and industry trends to continuously improve our observability capabilities.

Qualifications

• at least 3–5 years of hands-on experience with Splunk development, including dashboard creation, query optimization, and alerting.
• Strong proficiency in SPL (Search Processing Language) and familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security or ITSI.
• Experience integrating data from various sources (e.g., syslog, APIs, cloud services) into Splunk.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for data manipulation and automation.
• Familiarity with log management and observability tools beyond Splunk (e.g., ELK stack, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements in logging and monitoring.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical findings into business-relevant insights.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Design

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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