Job Description
Ayan Infotech are urgently looking for a Senior Splunk Consultant for a long term (12+ months) or a full-time permanent job prospect 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
TAinstallation/configurationand 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: ************ for more details.

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📌 Senior Splunk Consultant - Melbourne (Victoria)
🏢 AYAN INFOTECH
📍 Victoria