Senior Software Engineer, Productivity (Devops)

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

The Splunk Observability Suite is a new generation of cloud applications for microservices and distributed applications. We work on new, world-class tools to monitor and observe microservice-based applications.

Role

The Splunk Observability Team is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to help engineering teams improve their productivity by building new tools, automated practices and keeping our developer platform up to date. Our Engineering teams work with multiple software technologies, and cloud providers, and developing productivity tools for them is technically challenging. The qualified candidate will get an opportunity to innovate in the area of platform modernization, CICD, Code visibility and deployment metrics and contribute to overall Splunk success. We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and focused individuals who have a real passion for developer productivity engineering and have strong technical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

Work with technical leads and architects on developer platform improvement and modernization projects
Work closely with the software developers to identify, implement, and maintain efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines.
Work with stakeholders from leadership and engineering to identify relevant code and delivery pipeline quality metrics.
Develop tools to collect, analyze and present code quality/delivery/visibility metrics to provide data driven feedback
Develop tooling for container orchestrated testing and integration into efficient code delivery pipeline
Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and implement necessary controls
Mentor engineers on best development and CI/CD practice.

Requirements

Proficiency in programming languages, such as Python
Proficiency in using Git solutions and and its intricacies GitLab, Github
Experience in Docker, Kubernetes or any container orchestration solution
Working knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure
Working knowledge of Infrastructure as code technologies , such as Terraform
Knowledge of CI/CD technologies like Jenkins, GitLab CI, TeamCity
Excellent in critical thinking and problem solving
Experience building build tooling frameworks and infrastructure
Experience dealing with cross-functional teams, including Support and Sustaining

Education

BS EE or CS degree; 5+ years related experience (or Masters and 3+ years related experience) or equivalent.

Please note This position supports United States federal, state, and local government agency customers and is subject to certain U.S. citizenship-based restrictions imposed by law, regulation, executive order, government contract, and/or related determination by the U.S. Attorney General. As such, this position is contingent upon candidates establishing proof of U.S. citizenship status. If Splunk determines that a candidate’s citizenship status will prohibit the candidate from working in this position, Splunk expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Splunk shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application