E-Solutions · 3 hours ago
Infrastructure Specialist
Charlotte, NC
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expE-Solutions is looking for a Senior Splunk Infrastructure Engineer to assist in managing their large-scale logging and monitoring platforms. The role involves working closely with Observability engineers to maintain, upgrade, and optimize Splunk infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.
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Responsibilities
Splunk Administration: Manage the health, performance, and stability of multiple Splunk clusters (Search Head Clusters, Indexer Clusters, and Heavy Forwarders)
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Support: maintain and support the underlying infrastructure for Splunk ES, ensuring optimal performance for security operations
Heavy Forwarder & Pipeline Management: Manage applications, parsing rules, and data pipelines on Heavy Forwarders to ensure efficient data ingestion and routing
Reliability & HA/DR: Design and maintain High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies to ensure business continuity and platform resilience across regions
Safe Configuration Management: Champion proactive engineering practices by implementing safe deployment strategies for SaltStack configurations, including canary testing, validation, and staged rollouts to minimize production incidents
Infrastructure as Code: Maintain and write complex SaltStack states and formulas to manage Splunk configurations and underlying Linux VMs
GCP Operations: Provision, monitor, and scale infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform
System Optimization: Perform deep-dive troubleshooting on Linux systems (kernel tuning, disk I/O, memory management) to ensure optimal Splunk performance
On-Call Support: Participate in the on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents affecting Splunk infrastructure availability and performance, ensuring 24/7 reliability
Maintenance & Upgrades: Execute distinct maintenance windows, version upgrades, and patching cycles
Documentation: Update runbooks and technical documentation within our repository to ensure knowledge sharing, specifically focusing on configuration changes and pipeline architecture
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience administering large-scale Splunk Enterprise environments
Proven experience with Indexer Clustering and Search Head Clustering
Proficiency in writing, debugging, and optimizing complex SPL queries to support dashboarding, alerting, and data analysis
Hands-on experience administering and maintaining Splunk ES environments
Strong proficiency with SaltStack (Salt). You must be comfortable writing custom states and managing configurations for thousands of nodes
Deep understanding of Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu). Ability to debug resource contention, file system issues, and network bottlenecks
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically GCE and networking
Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation tasks
Company
E-Solutions
E-Solutions is a talent acquisition company that offers staffing, application development, and strategic outsourcing services.
1001-5000 employees
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ANKIT MISHRA
Head – Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Global Delivery Practice | Client Partnering | Cloud Computing
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