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



Ansible)
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Linux & Networking Basics
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Agile / Jira / ServiceNow
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Essential Skills:
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8-10 years experience with Splunk administration and data onboarding (or equivalent depth).
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Robust practical knowledge of:n
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CIM normalization, tags/eventtypes, datamodel alignment
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Field extraction (regex, JSON/KV extraction), and troubleshooting parsing issues
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props.conf / transforms.conf, sourcetypes, timestamps, line-breaking
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TA
installation/configuration
and deployment patterns across Splunk tiers
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Experience with complex Splunk architectures:n
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Indexer clusters, SH/SHC, forwarder management, deployment server
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Hybrid patterns (on-prem + cloud), connectivity, and ingestion strategies
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Comfortable writing and validating SPL for data quality and CIM compliance.
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Strong log source knowledge across common domains:n
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Security: EDR, firewall, proxy, IAM/auth, VPN, email security
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Infrastructure: Windows, Linux, network devices, virtualization
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Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP logging patterns (nice-to-have)
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Contact: ************ for more details.
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📌 Senior Splunk Consultant - Melbourne (Victoria)
🏢 AYAN INFOTECH
📍 Victoria