Splunk Engineer

Job Description

Maximus is seeking a highly technical Splunk Engineer to support a growing portfolio of observability, monitoring, and data engineering initiatives. This individual will serve as a key owner of the Splunk platform while also contributing to data integrations, automation, CI/CD pipeline development, and cloud-based infrastructure modernization. The ideal candidate is someone who can independently own Splunk administration and engineering efforts, onboard data sources, troubleshoot complex issues, build dashboards, automate deployments, and help drive the organization's transition toward Infrastructure as Code and automated platform management. This role is approximately 50% engineering/development and 50% platform administration/operations.

Compensation is $71/hr.

Skills and Requirements

Splunk Expertise

• 5+ years of hands-on Splunk experience

• Strong experience administering enterprise Splunk environments

• Splunk deployment, configuration, and maintenance experience

• Experience onboarding and integrating new data sources into Splunk

• Strong troubleshooting experience within Splunk environments

• Experience creating dashboards, alerts, and reports

• Experience supporting and optimizing Splunk infrastructure Data Engineering & Integration

• Experience moving and transforming data across multiple platforms and systems Automation & Development

• Python scripting experience

• Experience building and supporting API integrations DevOps / Infrastructure

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with Cribl administration and data pipeline management

• Experience leveraging Terraform for infrastructure automation

• Experience with GitHub for source control and deployment automation Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].