XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract
Melbourne, Australia | Posted on 09/23/2026
XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in ****, 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 workplace 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 Professional.
RelevantRed Hat, Terraform, Ansible, ITIL, or security certification.
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📌 Splunk Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Xpt Software Australia
📍 Melbourne