XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

Melbourne, Australia | Posted on 09/23/2026

- XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company

- XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.

- We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.

- XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.

- We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Splunk Platform Engineer tomanage and support a distributed Splunk environment hosted on AWS.

Key Responsibilities

- AdministerSplunk Search Head and Indexer clusters, Deployers, Deployment Servers, Forwarders,and supporting components.

- Monitorand troubleshoot platform health, performance, data ingestion, storage,searches, and alerts.

- Onboardlog sources and configure inputs, parsing, timestamps, indexes, retention,and access controls.

- Planand execute Splunk upgrades, migrations, patching, vulnerabilityremediation, and compatibility testing.

- SupportAWS-based Splunk infrastructure and S3/Glacier log archival.





- Manageincidents, problems, changes, root-cause analysis, and operationaldocumentation.

- Workwith security, cloud, infrastructure, application, and vendor teams.

Required Skills

- Strongknowledge of Splunk architecture and distributed environments.

- Hands-onexperience with Splunk administration, clustering, upgrades, migrations,and troubleshooting.

- Experiencewith Linux, particularly RHEL and Amazon Linux.

- Workingknowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Subnets, SecurityGroups, and CloudWatch.

- Proficiencyin Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.

- Strongcommunication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

- SplunkEnterprise Security, Splunk Cloud, or Splunk SOAR.

- ServiceNowor Jira and ITIL-based service-management processes.

- Securitycompliance, audit evidence, and vulnerability management.

Certifications – Optional

- SplunkEnterprise Certified Admin or Architect.

- AWSCertified Solutions Architect – Associate or Qualified.

- RelevantRed Hat, Terraform, Ansible, ITIL, or security certification.

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📌 Splunk Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 Melbourne