You must be a US Citizen working on US soil to be considered. This is a US-based position. Candidates must be able to support FedRAMP High.
This role is based in the Boulder, CO office or Raleigh, NC office, and will require relocation.
Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination and why we've won so many awards as a best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you.
Role Summary
The Cloud organization at Splunk focuses on building and maintaining robust and resilient platform solutions for SaaS hosting of Splunk’s enterprise software. Our main technologies are Cloud Infrastructure based, focusing on puppet and terraform.
It is the responsibility of the TechOps team to monitor and resolve issues that affect the availability and performance of Splunk for our cloud customers 24/7. As the authority on our customer’s experience. The TechOps team provides a backstop for all staff on any questions or issues that arise during their shift related to their technical area of expertise. The TechOps engineers lead their respective queue and ensure all requests coming into that queue are addressed in a timely manner.
You must be a US Citizen working on US soil to be considered. Candidates must be able to support FedRAMP High.
What you'll get to do
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help maintain, contribute to, and improve the next generation of our large scale Cloud offering. You will be working with providers and supporting the infrastructure that powers Splunk’s cloud offering.
Provide technical support for the Splunk Cloud fleet
Perform impact assessments and problem solving according to established procedures
Document issues, remediation steps, and help with follow up problem management
Lead support cases and also ensures queue management
Lead hierarchical and functional requests. Communicate with TechOps engineers as well as business partners around Cloud through email, chat, and in person.
Assist other TechOps engineers on your shift on complex tasks
Represent the TechOps team in meetings/process changes and make recommendations on new procedures/ processes
Use the internal tools to restore normal service operations as quickly as possible to minimize the impact to business operations during escalated incidents
Lead by example and drive the core values of the company
Always ensure a quality customer experience
Ability to work nights, weekends, and swing shifts.
You love large complex systems. You have experience in working on distributed systems or a passion for finding edge cases that appear at scale. You're interested in how to bring something from a small one off task to how to implement it across several thousand machines at once. “Can this process be automated?” is a question you constantly ask yourself. Data drives your decisions and excites you - you make decisions based on numbers rather than assumptions. If an issue arises, you strive to be alerted before our customers notice.
Must-have Qualifications
- A Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or a related technical field, and a strong record of academic achievement.
- This is a US-based position. US Citizenship is required and you must be working on US soil to be considered.
Please note: This position supports United States federal, state, and local government agency customers and is subject to certain U.S. citizenship-based restrictions imposed by law, regulation, executive order, government contract, and/or related determination by the U.S. Attorney General. As such, this position is contingent upon candidates establishing proof of U.S. citizenship status. If Splunk determines that a candidate’s citizenship status will prohibit the candidate from working in this position, Splunk expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Splunk shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.
Nice-to-have Qualifications
We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.
Understanding of monitoring and troubleshooting Splunk environments..
Understanding of administering or architecting distributed Splunk environments.
Understanding of the development and deployment of a hosted cloud environment, preferably Azure.
Experience with Python, Golang or Shell for scripting, and Git or similar version control systems.
Have an understanding of Systems programming (network stack, file system, OS services) and networking (L2 vs. L3, network architecture, VLANs, etc)
Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
Knowledge of the Linux Operating System
Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
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Base Pay Range
Base Pay Range: $95,360 - $131,120 per year
When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have
access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.
Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
