Job Description – Splunk Administrator with Linux

Position: Splunk Administrator / Splunk & Linux Administrator

Location: Bangalore, India

Employment Type: Permanent / Full-Time

Experience: 6–9 Years

Work Mode: Hybrid as per business requirement

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Splunk Administrator with strong Linux administration skills to manage, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot Splunk environments and Linux infrastructure. The candidate will be responsible for Splunk deployment, configuration, dashboard management, data onboarding, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise observability and log-management requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Splunk Enterprise environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot Splunk components.
• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, alerts, and scheduled searches.
• Support Splunk upgrades, patching, migration, backup, and recovery activities.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux/Unix servers, including user management, services, processes, filesystems, permissions, networking, and system logs.
• Monitor CPU, memory, disk, processes, and system performance.
• Participate in production support, incident management, change management, and on-call activities.

Mandatory Skills

• Splunk Administration – Strong hands-on experience
• Linux/Unix Administration – Strong hands-on experience
• Splunk Enterprise
• Indexers, Search Heads, Forwarders
• Universal Forwarder / Heavy Forwarder
• Splunk configuration and troubleshooting