Splunk Engineer / Splunk Dashboard & Reporting Analyst
Employment Type: C2C
Experience: 10+ Years Overall IT Experience
Location: Remote / Hybrid (Pan India)
Working Hours: 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Splunk Engineer / Splunk Dashboard & Reporting Analyst to design, develop, and support enterprise-grade monitoring, reporting, and observability solutions using Splunk.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, SPL (Search Processing Language), Dashboard Development, Log Analysis, Monitoring, Alerting, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). This role requires close collaboration with business, application, infrastructure, and operations teams to transform operational and business requirements into actionable dashboards, reports, alerts, and insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Splunk dashboards, visualizations, reports, and alerts for operational, business, and security monitoring.
- Develop and optimize complex SPL (Search Processing Language) queries for reporting, troubleshooting, and analytics.
- Create interactive dashboards, drill-down reports, scheduled reports, and ad-hoc reporting solutions.
- Configure and manage alerting mechanisms, notifications, threshold-based monitoring, email alerts, and webhook integrations.
- Perform field extractions using regex (rex), delimiter-based parsing, calculated fields, and lookup configurations.
- Support onboarding of new log sources by validating data quality, indexing strategies, parsing configurations, and source onboarding requirements.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and deliver effective Splunk solutions.
- Partner with Application, Infrastructure, Operations, and SRE teams to improve system reliability, observability, and performance.
- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) through correlation of logs, metrics, and events within Splunk.
- Troubleshoot data ingestion, indexing, parsing, search performance, and dashboard-related issues.
- Maintain documentation for dashboards, reports, alerts, searches, and operational procedures.
- Recommend and implement Splunk best practices for performance optimization, monitoring, and reporting.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall experience in Information Technology.
- 2–3 years of hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud.
- 2–3 years of experience in Monitoring, Log Analysis, Observability, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Strong expertise in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL), including:
- stats
- timechart
- transaction
- eval
- rex
- lookup
- multivalue (mv) commands
- Experience building:
- Interactive Dashboards
- Drill-Down Dashboards
- Scheduled Reports
- Ad-Hoc Reports
- Alerts & Notifications
- Strong experience with:
- Regex-Based Field Extractions (rex)
- Search-Time Extractions
- CSV Lookups
- KV Store Lookups (Basic Knowledge)
- Solid understanding of:
- Indexes
- Sourcetypes
- Hosts
- Search-Time vs Index-Time Processing
- Familiarity with:
- JSON
- XML
- CSV
- Application Logs
- Infrastructure Logs
- Basic Linux/Unix command-line experience for troubleshooting and log analysis.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in enterprise monitoring and observability environments.
- Familiarity with IT Operations, Infrastructure Monitoring, and Application Monitoring.
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
- Understanding of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, Shell, or PowerShell.
- Experience supporting large-scale production environments.
Preferred Certifications
The following certifications are highly desirable:
- Splunk Core Certified User
- Splunk Power User
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
- Splunk Enterprise Security Certifications
Technical SkillsSplunk & Observability
- Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Cloud
- SPL (Search Processing Language)
- Dashboard Development
- Reporting & Visualization
- Monitoring & Alerting
- Log Analysis
- Data Parsing
- Field Extractions
- Observability
Reliability & Operations
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Incident Investigation
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Performance Optimization
- Operational Monitoring
Data & Log Technologies
- JSON
- XML
- CSV
- Regex (rex)
- Search Optimization
Systems & Scripting
- Linux / Unix
- Python (Preferred)
- Shell Scripting (Preferred)
- PowerShell (Preferred)
Key Competencies
- Monitoring & Observability
- Data Analysis & Visualization
- Problem Solving & Troubleshooting
- Incident Investigation
- Reliability Engineering
- Stakeholder Communication
- Reporting & Analytics
- Operational Excellence
Pay: ₹70,000.00 - ₹90,000.00 per month
Experience:
- Splunk Dashboard & Reporting Analyst: 6 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote
