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 SummaryWe are actively seeking an Observability Engineer with a real passion for automation to help build scalable tools to run our distributed systems. You will be responsible for expanding and supporting the infrastructure platform services we provide to Splunk, as well as engaging with other teams to help improve efficiency and optimize our infrastructure. You're also an individual who's motivated by technology and enjoys automation and problem-solving. We work hard, we like to challenge the status quo, and we enjoy having fun!Your Continual ImpactManage and maintain datacenter and cloud Observability infrastructure to ensure SLAs are maintained with application and service owners using IAC tooling such as AWS config, CloudFormation, Ansible, or Terraform.Identify areas for improvement and develop automation to increase system reliability with scripting languages such as Python or Golang.Work closely with partners to craft and develop a variety of features and integrations to increase application and system dependability.Identify and resolve application, system, and integration issues to maintain efficient performance in our cloud based environments.Contribute to defining a full SLA supported matrix to improve MTTD/MTTR for customer services.Join the on-call rotation to respond to high-priority incidents with the goal of minimal downtime (minimal MTTR).Document and maintain up-to-date system procedures, configurations, resolution guides, and standard processes as reference material for the team.Must-have QualificationsDemonstrated ability in DevOps / SRE focused environments.Foundational understanding of a scripting language (Golang, Python).Validated experience managing AWS or other Public Cloud platforms.Practical knowledge of a number of Operating Systems, including Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL) and Windows.Proficiency using Configuration Management tools like Ansible/Chef/Puppet.Familiarity with using CI/CD pipeline tool experience (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub).An understanding of networking concepts and Internet protocols.Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to customers and upper management.A strong desire to automate and solution issues with code.Nice-to-have QualificationsUnderstanding of the pillars of Observability and OpenTelemetry (OTel).Experience with F5 Network Load Balancing.Familiarity with cloud-native serverless architectures and container orchestration.
