Ayan Infotech has an urgent and immediate requirement for a Splunk Data Administrator for a long term contract job opportunity in Melbourne.

All applicants must have full unrestricted work rights in Australia.

Title: Splunk Data Administrator
Location: Melbourne
Type: Contract (6 months +)

Required Skills and Experience:

Splunk:
- Good understanding of Splunk architecture and its components (Search Heads, Indexers, Deployers).
- Experience in managing and troubleshooting Splunk distributed environments (clusters), Splunk upgrade and migration .

Operating Systems & Cloud Platforms:
- Expertise in Linux systems, specifically RHEL and Amazon Linux.
- Experience with AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Subnets, Security Groups and CloudWatch.

DevOps & Automation Tools:
- Experience with Jenkins pipelines and CI/CD processes, Ansible for configuration management and automation, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
- Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and Terraform modules for system management and scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Shell for automation tasks.


Required Skills & Experience

• 5-10 years experience with Splunk administration and data onboarding (or equivalent depth).
• Strong practical knowledge of:
  - CIM normalization, tags/eventtypes, datamodel alignment
  - Field extraction (regex, JSON/KV extraction), and troubleshooting parsing issues
  - props.conf / transforms.conf, sourcetypes, timestamps, line-breaking
  - TA installation/configuration and deployment patterns across Splunk tiers
• Experience with complex Splunk architectures:
  - Indexer clusters, SH/SHC, forwarder management, deployment server
  - Hybrid patterns (on-prem + cloud), connectivity, and ingestion strategies
• Comfortable writing and validating SPL for data quality and CIM compliance.
• Strong log source knowledge across common domains:
  - Security: EDR, firewall, proxy, IAM/auth, VPN, email security
  - Infrastructure: Windows, Linux, network devices, virtualization
  - Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP logging patterns (nice-to-have)
  
  

Contact: 02 9412 4178 for more details.

www.ayaninfotech.com