Splunk Platform Engineer — Real-Time Ops & Observability

Devopsroles; Florida, United States, Northern America, Americas; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and optimize a large-scale Splunk environment supporting mission-critical operations across parks, resorts, cruises, and consumer products. This hands-on role focuses on data pipelines, on-prem server architecture, observability, and DevOps automation.

You will manage Splunk from infrastructure to dashboards, build pipelines, and collaborate with software engineering leaders to ensure reliability, high availability, and scalable performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with Splunk administration and development
• Proven experience owning a Splunk environment end-to-end
• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise architecture, data ingestion, parsing, and optimization

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the full Splunk stack
• End-to-end responsibility from bare metal infrastructure → OS → Splunk architecture → dashboards and analytics
• Design, deploy, and maintain Splunk infrastructure
• Install, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering)
• Manage both on-premise/physical server environments and hybrid integrations
• Support real-time operational systems
• Build dashboards and alerts used by engineering and operations teams
• Develop data pipelines and ingestion strategies
• Integrate data from diverse sources (logs, sensors, applications, control systems)
• Optimize parsing, indexing, and search performance
• Partner with software engineering leadership
• Work closely with Software Engineering Managers and system teams
• Translate operational requirements into scalable Splunk solutions
• Performance tuning and system reliability
• Identify bottlenecks across infrastructure and data pipelines
• Ensure high availability, redundancy, and system resilience
• Security, governance, and access control
• Implement role-based access and data governance best practices
• Maintain compliance with enterprise security standards
• Continuous improvement
• Recommend architecture improvements and modernization strategies
• Evaluate tools within the Splunk ecosystem (e.g., ITSI, ES, Cribl, etc.)

Skills

Splunk administration

End-to-end ownership

Linux administration

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Cribl

ELK

Prometheus

Job description

Disney is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and optimize a large-scale Splunk environment supporting mission-critical operations across parks, resorts, cruises, and consumer products. This hands-on role focuses on data pipelines, on-prem server architecture, observability, and DevOps automation.

You will manage Splunk from infrastructure to dashboards, build pipelines, and collaborate with software engineering leaders to ensure reliability, high availability, and scalable performance.