Senior Software Engineer-Splunk

$104,800 - $144,300/Yr

Humana - Boise, ID

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Boise, ID

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About the position

The Senior Software Engineer-Splunk at Humana is a key role within the IT Enterprise Observability engineering team, responsible for enhancing and maintaining the company's Splunk installation. This position requires a hands-on approach to managing Splunk configuration files and applications, supporting the full system engineering life-cycle, and collaborating with various teams to ensure optimal performance and integration of Splunk solutions. The engineer will act as a subject matter expert, providing troubleshooting support and developing strategies for log ingestion and data normalization.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve the company's Splunk installation.
• Maintain Splunk configuration files and apps.
• Provide support for the full system engineering life-cycle.
• Ensure software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Code solutions and perform unit testing.
• Ensure the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces.
• Provide engineering and administration in supporting complex and large Splunk environments consisting of search heads, indexers, deployment servers, heavy/universal forwarders, etc.
• System performance and optimization.
• Collaborate and be the Splunk subject matter expert for Enterprise Observability Splunk Cloud Platform.
• Work in partnership with Enterprise Security, Site Reliability Engineering, and IT Operations teams.
• Perform troubleshooting, work through complex requirements/solutions, and provide assistance/coaching with the creation of Splunk search queries and dashboards.

Requirements

• Associates degree and minimum 7 years of experience as a Splunk Engineer, or 10 years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• 6+ years of experience administering Splunk in distributed deployments.
• Subject Matter Expert in Splunk and AWS Cloud Platforms.
• 6+ years of experience in creating Splunk search queries and dashboards.
• 4+ years of experience in supporting complex and large Splunk environments.
• 4+ years of experience configuring and maintaining the tool in a multi-tenant environment.
• 4+ years of experience with Splunk performing systems administration, including installation, configuration, monitoring system performance and availability, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Subject Matter Expert in developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies per Splunk best practices.
• Subject Matter Expert at data onboarding activities including routing, parsing, and normalizing events to the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM).
• 4+ years of experience with Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) and Enterprise Analytics.
• Splunk Certified Core Power User.
• Splunk Certified Enterprise Admin.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work closely with multiple customers, manage expectations and track engagement scope.
• Must be a self-starter, autonomously prioritize and successfully deliver results.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree
• Previously worked in highly regulated industries (Healthcare, Banking, Cybersecurity)

Benefits

• Health benefits effective day 1
• Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
• Recognition pay
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Tuition assistance
• Scholarships for eligible dependents
• Parental and caregiver leave
• Employee charity matching program
• Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
• Career development opportunities