Sr DevOps (Splunk) Support Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Position Summary

Illumina is one of the most successful biotech companies to create World-Class Software Solution that revolutionizes the healthcare industry. As a member of our Research and Development team in Singapore, you will have opportunity to work with the best and brightest talents in the industry from Silicon Valley, San Diego and Cambridge, UK. Our team develops the software that powers the most advanced DNA sequencers in the world. We create the Informatics ecosystem that define the genomics industry to provide the best user experience for scientists, researchers, and healthcare professional. We use the latest SW technology such as .NET Core, Restful APIs, MicroServices Architecture, Cloud Computing on AWS in our new product development.

As a Sr Splunk Engineer you are responsible for administering the day to day Splunk activities of Illumina’s global Cloud-based Splunk Enterprise Platform. You should be familiar with onboarding new data sources and have basic troubleshooting skills. The Splunk engineer should be familiar with a Linux environment, editing and maintaining Splunk configuration files and apps. As a Splunk Engineer, you will be a part of the team that provides breakthrough genomic informatics solutions worldwide to enable the transformation of human health through DNA sequencing.

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, and maintain required Splunk applications and add-ons
• Monitor Splunk ingestion, heatlth status, and resolve any issues that may arise in a timely manner as needed
• Integrate Splunk with other tools as needed
• Manage, maintain and troubleshoot installation of splunk universal forwarder client on Linux
• Manage and troubleshoot the onboard of data
• Create, maintain and troubleshoot alerts and reports as needed
• Mentor users and other groups on their use of Splunk
• Be able to quickly learn new tools and technology
• Automate functionalities and processes. Fluency with Python, Ansible , Bash.
  
  

Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Position Requirements

• In-depth knowledge writing Splunk queries in Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL)
• Understand Splunk Architecture (deployment server, heavy/universal forwarder, search head)
• Relevant experience in AWS
• Relevant working experience in one of the programming skills for task automation (BASH, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Understand how dashboards work
• The ability to pick up new technologies quickly and rapidly deep-dive
• A strong preference for collaborative teamwork and work/knowledge sharing.
  
  

All listed requirements are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Skills That Are a Plus

• Tools - Cribl, GitHub, Kubernetes , Jira , Confluence, GHAS, GH Actions.
• Understand API Calls
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Cloud
• Any Splunk training and or certificates
  
  

All listed skills are deemed as an additional functions to this position that would be a nice to have.

Preferred Education/Experience

• 5 years of experience as a Linux Administrator
• 4 years of experience as Splunk Administrator for large enterprise environment
• 3 years of experience as a Windows & Linux Administrator is a plus
  
  

Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.