Splunk Engineer
SpaceX
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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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The Splunk Engineer joins the team to deploy, administer, and support a distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale. The primary responsibilities include standardizing agent deployments and configurations using automation, monitoring platform performance, availability, and capacity, and troubleshooting Splunk instances and Universal Forwarder problems. The engineer will write complex SPLs for dashboards and alerts, manage data onboarding, governance, and field extraction, and identify visibility gaps for SOC detections. Required technical skills include experience with Splunk administration, complex regex, and automation frameworks like Puppet or Ansible. Preferred expertise includes Python for custom commands, Git, CI/CD, and Linux systems. The role provides critical support for mission-critical, 24/7 operational environments involving aerospace, satellite communications, launch vehicle, or factory-floor logging data to protect internal information and hardware.
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