FinXL I.T Professional Services is an innovative Australian owned company providing our clients with technology enabled business solutions and consulting services.
As the 'go-to' mid-tier Service Provider for many Australian and International clients, FinXL enjoys a diverse client portfolio, boasting some of the industry's leading: Telecommunication, Banking and Finance and Commercial Corporations, along with many State and Federal Government Departments.

As a Splunk Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, configuring, deploying, and supporting a Monitoring Platform (Splunk) for the broader organisation.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Support NMP Splunk platform operations including ITSI, Search Heads Indexer and Heavy Forwarder clusters
• Provide level 2 technical support. Assist with level 3 incident and problem investigations, service risks and issues for Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk ITSI.
• Performance optimisation - Optimise existing and new search queries and dashboards to improve performance.
• Design and implement monitoring solutions for new and existing systems, utilising Splunk patterns. Also, contribute to the creation of new monitoring patterns where required.
• Data onboarding: Requirements gathering, design, implementation, and testing, to onboard new data sources to Splunk - via Universal Forwarders, HTTP Event Collector, APIs, syslog etc.
• Map data to Splunk CIM, to meet stakeholder and data governance requirements.
• Deploy and configure Splunk premium add-ons (Enterprise Security and ITSI).

Skills and Experience:

• Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture, administration, and custom development (Splunk certified admin / architect / developer or equivalent experience) across Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk ITSI.
• Experience administering and/or developing for an enterprise level implementation of Splunk (clustered architecture).
• Proficient in Splunk query language (SPL) and experienced in developing and supporting custom Splunk search head applications for specific use cases.
• Strong technical knowledge of Red hat Linux, Firewalls and Load Balancing principles
• Extensive knowledge and experience of Agile and DevOps.
• AWS - architect and sysops certified or equivalent. Azure and/or GCP experience is also preferred.
• Ansible, CD tools, particularly Jenkins.
• Scripting - Linux Shell & Python.
• Linux OS (preferable Red hat proficiency).
• Experienced user of Git / GitHub, Splunk Phantom, Syslog-ng and/or syslogs and Confluence.

Next steps:

• Roll your mouse over to that Apply Now button if you think your skills and experience fit the bill for this role. Submitted CVs must be in Word.