Splunk & Linux System Engineer

We are looking for a Splunk & Linux System Engineer responsible for supporting and enhancing a Linux-based enterprise infrastructure and Splunk platform in a large-scale operational environment.

The role combines Linux system engineering, Splunk administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and platform engineering. The consultant will ensure the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of Linux systems and Splunk services while contributing to incident resolution, root cause analysis, automation initiatives, and platform evolution.

The consultant will work in an operational environment focused on service continuity, observability, automation, and infrastructure standardization.

Your missions

Linux Infrastructure Management

• Support and maintain Linux-based infrastructure.
• Manage physical, virtualized, and containerized environments.
• Ensure system reliability, security, compliance, and performance.
• Perform lifecycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.

Splunk Platform Administration & Engineering

• Administer and support production Splunk environments.
• Design, implement, and improve Splunk solutions.
• Integrate and maintain data sources.
• Optimize data quality, platform performance, and service visibility.

Incident & Problem Management

• Resolve incidents and service requests affecting Linux and Splunk services.
• Diagnose issues using operating system and Splunk data.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Propose and implement long-term corrective actions.

Automation & Infrastructure Engineering

• Develop automation solutions through scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Standardize platform and infrastructure configurations.
• Improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation

• Participate in R&D activities.
• Evaluate new Splunk features, applications, add-ons, and integrations.
• Contribute to solution prototyping and future platform evolution.

Your activities

Splunk Operations

• Configure and maintain:
• Indexes
• Sourcetypes
• Parsing rules
• Data retention settings
• Role-based access controls
• Manage:
• Universal Forwarders
• Heavy Forwarders
• Splunk apps and add-ons
• Create and maintain:
• Dashboards
• Reports
• Alerts
• Searches
• Field extractions
• Monitor Splunk platform health.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, and search issues.
• Support operational monitoring and observability initiatives.

Linux Administration

• Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Perform OS-level diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Conduct system performance tuning.
• Support patching, provisioning, and lifecycle operations.
• Maintain containerized workloads and supporting infrastructure.

Monitoring & Incident Response

• Investigate infrastructure and platform incidents.
• Analyze logs, metrics, and events.
• Correlate infrastructure, platform, and network events.
• Support detection, diagnosis, and reduction of MTTD/MTTR.
• Contribute to monitoring-driven operations and forensic investigations.

Automation & DevOps

• Develop automation using:
• Ansible
• Bash
• Python
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Support CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Git-based workflows.
• Integrate automation into operational processes and monitoring systems.

Collaboration & Operational Governance

• Work with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate with vendors and support partners.
• Document solutions, procedures, and changes.
• Operate within ITIL-aligned processes:
• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Service Request Management

You have the following skills:

Must-Have

SkillsSplunk

• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Splunk in production environments.
• Data onboarding and ingestion management.
• Universal Forwarders and Heavy Forwarders.
• Apps and add-ons management.
• SPL (Search Processing Language).
• Dashboards, reports, alerts, and field extractions.
• Splunk platform monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Indexes, sourcetypes, parsing, retention policies, and RBAC concepts.

Linux

• Minimum 4 years of experience managing Linux-based infrastructure.
• Enterprise-scale Linux operations.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle management.
• Linux troubleshooting and OS diagnostics.
• System performance optimization.

Automation

• Strong Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• Bash and/or Python scripting.
• Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
• Automation workflow development.

Operations & Service Management

• Incident, problem, and change management.
• Root cause analysis.
• Monitoring-driven operations.
• Service request handling.
• ITIL-based operational environments.

Languages

• French or Dutch: Full professional proficiency.
• English: Professional working proficiency.

Nice-to-Have

SkillsInfrastructure & Platforms

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x.
• VMware environments.
• NetApp storage systems.
• Hardware lifecycle management.
• Firmware lifecycle management.

Containers & Cloud-Native Technologies

• Podman.
• OCI Containers.
• Container lifecycle operations.
• Container monitoring.

DevOps & CI/CD

• GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• CI/CD pipelines.
• Infrastructure deployment automation.

Security & Monitoring

• Event correlation.
• Anomaly investigation.
• Performance baselining.
• Monitoring and alerting strategies.
• Log aggregation and metrics collection.
• Integration of security signals into monitoring pipelines.

Security Technologies

• Trend Micro Deep Security.
• ClamAV.
• Similar endpoint protection solutions.

Network & Security Infrastructure

• Palo Alto.
• Check Point.
• F5.
• InfoBlox.
• Network event correlation and incident analysis.

Vendor & Platform Management

• Vendor coordination.
• Support contract management.
• Licensing management.