Ayan Infotech are urgently looking for a Senior Splunk Consultant for a long term (12+ months) or a full-time permanent job opportunity in Melbourne (Sydney can be considered as work location too).
All applicants must have full unrestricted work rights in Australia.
Title: Senior Splunk Consultant Type: Contract (12+ months) OR permanent Location: Melbourne preferred, Sydney okay too Nature of work: Hybrid (2-3 days in office in a week) Required Skills and Experience: Here are some of the areas that are key to being successful in the role Splunk Administration Splunk Enterprise Splunk Cloud Splunk Data Onboarding SPL Query Development Optimization CIM / Data Governance / RBAC Field Extraction / Parsing / REGEX (Part of Splunk Data Onboarding) props.conf / transforms.conf: ( Part of Splunk Data Onboarding) Splunk Indexer Cluster SHC Administration Forwarders / Deployment Server Management Splunk Cloud Migration Technical Add-ons (TA) Installation Configuration Hybrid Splunk Architecture Security Log Onboarding Compliance Python Scripting Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Dynatrace / AppDynamics Monitoring CI/CD Pipelines (Git, Ansible)



Linux Networking Basics Agile / Jira / ServiceNow Essential Skills: 8-10 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.
Robust 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: ************ for more details.

📌 Senior Splunk Consultant - Melbourne
🏢 AYAN INFOTECH
📍 Melbourne