Senior Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities • Design, develop and maintain scalable, highly available Splunk Enterprise architectures for enterprise logging and observability. • Develop and enhance Splunk applications, dashboards, reports, alerts and operational workflows using SPL, JavaScript and related technologies. • Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines, custom parsing rules, field extractions, event transformations and data models. • Manage distributed Splunk environments, including Indexers, Search Heads, Forwarders, Deployment Servers and clustering. • Develop and implement integrations for AWS CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs and other enterprise application and security log sources. • Develop automation scripts using Python and Bash, and implement configuration management using Ansible, Puppet or Terraform. • Administer and optimise Splunk platforms, manage upgrades and migrations, troubleshoot performance issues, and develop scalable Syslog solutions using SC4S. Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related discipline. • Minimum 8 years of overall IT experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure or enterprise logging. • At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Splunk Enterprise development, architecture and administration. • Strong expertise in Splunk distributed architecture, Indexers, Search Heads, Forwarders, clustering and platform management. • Proven experience developing Splunk applications, dashboards, reports, alerts, SPL queries, data models and custom integrations. • Hands-on experience with Python/Bash scripting, AWS log integration, Syslog architecture, SC4S and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Terraform. • Good understanding of CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Splunk AppInspect, platform performance optimisation, troubleshooting and enterprise DevOps practices.