Sr. Splunk Engineer

About the role

Location: Reston, VA. Hybrid role with a duration of 6+ months. The client is migrating to the cloud and needs strong cloud expertise, specifically experience with Splunk on AWS and dashboard development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop production-quality custom Splunk dashboards using JavaScript, CSS, and advanced HTML in a large‑scale Enterprise Splunk environment (Splunk Enterprise and Splunk IT Service Intelligence).
• Work with business teams to perform requirements‑gathering sessions to define the scope and design of new and existing dashboards, alerts, reports, and data sources.
• Understand business process flows and design & develop an “End‑2‑End” business transaction visibility solution, including large‑scale processing, integration, and analysis of system logs and databases in Splunk.
• Discover and mine data to develop meaningful insights into failed, unexpected, incomplete, or delayed business transactions.
• Develop visualization dashboards and indicators that identify anomalous activities using statistical behavior models and machine learning.
• Explore and build new capabilities such as Splunk mobile and create mobile‑friendly dashboards.
• Design and build automation solutions to templatize dashboards for large‑scale implementation across different business applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems from a reputed institution.
• Possess one of the following certifications: Splunk Certified Developer or Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin.
• 5+ years of experience in Splunk development (creating dashboards, visualizations, statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts, and knowledge objects).
• 2+ years of experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
• Expert‑level knowledge of the Splunk Search language and ability to build complex queries.
• Experience implementing KV stores, lookups, and data model acceleration to optimize search performance and reporting.
• Knowledge of how to customize dashboards via simple XML, advanced XML source, JavaScript, CSS, and advanced HTML.
• Expert‑level capabilities with regular expressions and statistical functions.
• Experience creating Splunk knowledge objects (field extractions, macros, event types, etc.).
• Strong problem‑solving, logical, and analytical skills.
• Prior experience as a web developer using Java, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, or other programming languages is a plus.

Skills

• Splunk development and dashboard creation.
• Splunk on AWS and cloud migration expertise.
• Dashboard development: configuring/tweaking out‑of‑the‑box dashboards, customizing with Splunk scripting, further customizing with JavaScript or other UI technologies.
• Proficiency with JavaScript, CSS, advanced HTML, and Splunk Simple/Advanced XML.
• Experience with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).
• Knowledge of AWS services and admin/dev certifications.
• Skill in implementing KV stores, lookups, data model acceleration, regex, and statistical functions.
• Ability to create Splunk knowledge objects (field extractions, macros, event types).
• Experience building mobile‑friendly dashboards and automation solutions for templatizing dashboards at scale.