Splunk Developer

Splunk Developer

Background

Positka FSI Pte (Positka) is a Singapore based boutique consulting firm with blue chip multinational clients. Positka provides execution focused high value advisory to clients in Business Transformation, Program Management, Information Technology, Big data Analytics and Cybersecurity.

Positka are looking for highly motivated and exceptionally driven people to join their fast-growing business growth and marketing team. On offer is an opportunity to be part of an entrepreneurial journey, to work with the best professionals in the world and to achieve outstanding financial rewards.

Role Description

If you are passionate about data, analytics, and building enterprise-grade solutions using Splunk, we would love to hear from you. We are seeking a Splunk Developer with 3–5 years of experience who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining Splunk-based solutions to collect, analyze, and visualize machine-generated data for operational, business, and security use cases.

You will work closely with stakeholders, architects, and cross-functional teams to design ingestion pipelines, create advanced dashboards and reports, automate workflows, and optimize Splunk deployments for scalability, security, and performance.

Candidates will be expected to:

-Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data requirements, use cases, and objectives for Splunk deployments.

-Design and implement data ingestion pipelines including data collection, parsing, field extraction, normalization, and indexing.

-Develop and optimize SPL queries, reports, dashboards, correlation searches, alerts, and frontend visualizations to extract actionable insights.

-Build and maintain data models, lookups, macros, event types, and tags to support analytics and reporting.

-Develop automated solutions and integrations using Python for data manipulation, onboarding, and Splunk API interactions.

-Design and implement user-friendly dashboards, panels, and visualizations using Splunk, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

-Design, Implement and manage Splunk apps, add-ons, forwarders, HEC inputs, and custom app development to support business analytics and monitoring needs.

-Troubleshoot Splunk issues related to data onboarding, parsing, indexing, and search performance.

-Work with IT Operations and Security teams to develop log analysis, monitoring, and incident response solutions in Splunk.

-Ensure compliance, security, and data governance by configuring role-based access control, data encryption, and audit trails.

-Provide end-user support, knowledge transfer, and training to teams on Splunk usage.

-Stay updated with new Splunk features, advanced SPL techniques, scripting integrations, and industry best practices, and recommend improvements.

Skills and Education:

Experience: 3–5 years of experience working as a Splunk Developer/Engineer/Administrator.

-Proficiency in SPL for building complex queries, alerts, dashboards, and advanced analytics use cases.

-Hands-on experience with Splunk administration (indexing, props.conf, transforms.conf, inputs/outputs, forwarder deployment).

-Strong understanding of log parsing, field extractions, and regex.

-Hands-on experience in Splunk app development and SPL (Search Processing Language) queries.

-Proficiency in Python for scripting and automation.

-Solid understanding of at least one front-end technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).

-Knowledge of Splunk architecture, data ingestion, and integration.

-Experience with Linux/Unix administration and scripting (Bash, ksh, Python, or PowerShell)

-Familiarity with databases (Oracle, SQL, DB Connect) is preferred.

-Experience in IT infrastructure environments (servers, networking, monitoring tools).

-Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred:

-Experience with REST API integrations within Splunk.

-Familiarity with agile software development and DevOps practices.

-Familiarity with ITIL process for ticket management

-Splunk certification(s).

Location

The role is based out of Chennai (India).

Contact:

• regina@positka.com