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1d ago

Senior Software Engineer

Wyandotte Technologies Springfield, MO

Springfield, MO

1d ago

$110k - $115k/yr Full time Senior Data Analysis Data Integration

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Job Description

Wyandotte Technologies is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer/SME to support mission-critical systems for the Southwestern Power Administration (SWPA), U.S. Department of Energy. This 100% onsite role in Springfield, Missouri centers on hands-on Splunk enterprise architecture and administration within secure, highly restricted environments, including real-time SCADA operations.

In this position, you will serve as a senior technical owner for operational observability, advanced SPL development, data onboarding and normalization, and automation that improves reliability, performance, and troubleshooting speed for distributed Splunk deployments.

Location: Springfield, MO (onsite)

Salary: USD 110,000 - 115,000 per yearly

Experience: 5+ years

Responsibilities

Act as the senior Splunk SME and technical owner for enterprise and operational Splunk capabilities.
Design, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot distributed Splunk environments, including search heads, indexers, forwarders, deployment components, and clustered architectures as applicable.
Develop and optimize advanced SPL for operational intelligence, troubleshooting, analytics, correlation, alerting, and performance at scale.
Own data onboarding and normalization, including indexes, sourcetypes, props/transforms, field extractions, forwarder configuration, retention, access controls, and platform health.
Engineer dashboards, reports, and actionable alerts to reduce time to detect, diagnose, and resolve operational issues.
Design production-grade automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs, and other appropriate technologies to support Splunk and enterprise operations.
Automate deployments, configuration, validation, monitoring, reporting, remediation, and recurring support activities.
Integrate Splunk with applications, ServiceNow, automation workflows, infrastructure, security tooling, and other enterprise systems.
Analyze application, infrastructure, security, and operational telemetry to identify trends, anomalies, failures, performance issues, and root causes.
Establish reusable engineering standards, documentation, configuration practices, and support procedures.
Mentor engineers and administrators and provide technical leadership for complex Splunk and observability issues.
Identify manual, repetitive, and error-prone processes and engineer reliable automated solutions.
Design, implement, and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Automate build, test, release, deployment, validation, and rollback processes.
Develop, enhance, integrate, and support custom enterprise applications.
Modernize legacy applications and operational processes into secure, supportable architectures.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform detailed root-cause analysis.
Participate in Agile/Scrum development and sprint activities and create clear technical documentation.
Support systems operating in secure and highly restricted environments, including real-time operational and SCADA-related systems.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and occasional evening/weekend maintenance or deployment activities.
Work closely with SWPA stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership to translate operational needs into reliable technical solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field plus 7+ years of relevant professional experience; OR 11+ years of relevant Splunk, infrastructure, systems engineering, automation, DevOps, or implementation experience.
7+ years of enterprise infrastructure, security, systems, observability, automation, or related engineering experience.
5+ years of hands-on Splunk engineering or administration in enterprise or production environments, with demonstrated senior-level ownership.
Advanced SPL expertise, including complex search development, troubleshooting, correlation, and search optimization.
Hands-on experience administering core Splunk platform components such as indexers, search heads, universal/heavy forwarders, deployment server, and distributed or clustered environments.
Demonstrated experience with data onboarding and normalization, including indexes, sourcetypes, props/transforms, field extractions, forwarders, and retention.
Strong Linux and/or Windows systems troubleshooting experience and the ability to diagnose platform, application, network, and data-ingestion problems.
Strong scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs, or comparable technologies.
Experience with Git and CI/CD or configuration/deployment automation.
Strong communication, client relationship, root-cause analysis, documentation, mentoring, and independent technical ownership skills.
Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, or comparable advanced Splunk certification strongly preferred.
U.S. Citizenship required due to federal customer/system-access requirements.
Must successfully complete a 7-year background investigation.
100% onsite in Springfield, Missouri. Candidates must be able and willing to work onsite (not remote or hybrid).
Must participate in an on-call rotation supporting mission-critical systems.
Must be available for occasional evening or weekend maintenance and deployment activities.
Important Applicant Screening: Apply only if you meet all three: 5+ years hands-on Splunk engineering/administration, U.S. Citizenship, and 100% onsite work in Springfield, Missouri.

Technologies

Splunk
SPL
PowerShell
Python
Bash
REST APIs
ServiceNow
CI/CD
Git
Linux
Windows

Benefits

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance

Preferred Qualifications

Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, or comparable advanced Splunk certification.
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), security monitoring/SIEM, or advanced operational observability experience.
Large-scale distributed Splunk architecture, clustering, capacity/performance optimization, upgrade/migration, and platform lifecycle experience.
Automated remediation, event-driven automation, REST APIs, ServiceNow integrations, and enterprise workflow automation.
Experience supporting Linux and Windows in secure, restricted, federal, or other highly controlled computing environments.
SCADA, industrial control systems, OT/IT integration, utilities, energy, real-time operational systems, or other critical-infrastructure experience.
Technical leadership, architecture ownership, or mentoring of Splunk engineers and administrators.

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