Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
**Role Summary**:
**What you'll get to do**:
- Provide leadership and direction to the rapid response team, ensuring all duties and tasks are being performed expertly and effectively during each shift.
- Partner with RRT Peers globally to ensure adequate coverage models, training plans, consistent delivery methods and measurable outcomes.
- Partner with peers in Problem Management and other Teams within the Splunk Ecosystem to find opportunities to automate internal repeatable tasks to reduce repeatable risk for our customers and our teams.
- Work closely with various groups within Cloud Operations to drive efficiencies. Including reviewing runbooks and key alert metrics, and overall health and stability of monitoring across our Cloud Platforms.
- Represent the Rapid Response Team in meetings/ process changes and make recommendations on new procedures/ processes.
- Act as a Liaison between various teams such as; monitoring teams, Global Support and leadership for new processes, tools, and knowledge transfers.
- Monitor performance of rapid response team; including training and development opportunities, upskilling, tracking performance, and adhering to quarterly training plans
- Provide responsibilities
- including communicating/updating Executive leadership teams, participating in post-incident review, and ensuring action plans are followed through
- Solve issues and participate in on-call support, ensuring stability and performance of Splunk products
- Mentor new team members
- Attract and hire top talent
**Must-have Qualifications**:
- You have 2-4 years in hands-on manager and/ or strong team lead experience in either a technical Support Organization, Technical/ Cloud Operations, or similar Incident/ Escalation role
- Flexible to work non-standard working hours which may include evening hours and/or weekends.
- Understanding of Cloud Services, such as AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience working with a framework or methodology such as ITSM, ITIL, DevOps, etc.
- Experienced in Systems Administration or Technical Operations
- Hands-on experience maintaining and fix Linux/UNIX servers in a production environment.
- Calm and collected in stressful situations, such as a major service outage.
- Highly collaborative, but also able to take charge and drive a plan to completion.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with highly technical teams.
- Customer success mentality, consistent track record and ability to make good judgments and pivot to ensure resolution
- Demonstrated attention to detail, follow through, and ability to prioritize quickly are necessary
**Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer**
At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
