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HCLTech

Sr Subject Matter Expert (Support&Ops)

HCLTech
Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPosted Discovered via the company's careers siteMatch locked
Full-time12+ years exp

Years of Experience

  • 12+ years of experience in SIEM engineering, Splunk administration, security analytics, detection engineering, and enterprise log-management environments.

General Description

  • Serve as the L3 SME for Customer's Splunk Cloud managed service, responsible for advanced troubleshooting, engineering, optimization, and technical governance.
  • Lead complex data onboarding, detection-content engineering, advanced dashboarding, alert tuning, performance optimization, and RCA support.
  • Provide technical oversight to L2 engineers and collaborate with Customer, SOC/MSSP, IAM, PAM, AppSec, DevOps, network, cloud, and application teams.

Technical Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud in enterprise environments.
  • Experience with SPL searches, dashboards, reports, alerts, field extractions, sourcetypes, indexes, and knowledge objects.
  • Experience in log-source onboarding, ingestion validation, parsing, field mapping, data-quality checks, and pipeline troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of SIEM operations, security monitoring, incident investigation, RCA evidence, and operational reporting.
  • Experience integrating Splunk with IAM, PAM, SSO, EDR, cloud, network-security, application, and infrastructure data sources.
  • Experience with ServiceNow/Jira, incident, request, change, and problem management processes.
  • Ability to maintain use-case catalogues, data-source inventories, dashboard inventories, runbooks, and service metrics.
  • Advanced SPL development and optimization, data models, accelerated searches, correlation searches, macros, lookups, and enterprise-scale dashboard design.
  • Strong experience in detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, use-case lifecycle management, tuning methodology, and security-content governance.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex ingestion architecture, heavy forwarders, universal forwarders, HEC, APIs, cloud integrations, and data-routing issues.
  • Knowledge of Splunk Cloud architecture, search performance, ingestion forecasting, retention, index strategy, and cost/license optimization.
  • Ability to lead RCA, problem management, technical reviews, platform upgrades, automation, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
  • Experience with Python, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD, and automation of Splunk administration and content deployment.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Exceptional project management and organizational abilities.
  • Team collaboration and leadership skills.
  • Client-focused approach with a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service.

Certifications (Good to have)

Good to have relevant certificates like (any of the below):

  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Cloud Certified Admin, or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin.
  • CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CySA+, or equivalent security certification is preferred.

Educational Qualifications

  • University degree in IT or/and IT Security.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science/ IT or any relevant fields.

Technical Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud in enterprise environments.
  • Experience with SPL searches, dashboards, reports, alerts, field extractions, sourcetypes, indexes, and knowledge objects.
  • Experience in log-source onboarding, ingestion validation, parsing, field mapping, data-quality checks, and pipeline troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of SIEM operations, security monitoring, incident investigation, RCA evidence, and operational reporting.
  • Experience integrating Splunk with IAM, PAM, SSO, EDR, cloud, network-security, application, and infrastructure data sources.
  • Experience with ServiceNow/Jira, incident, request, change, and problem management processes.
  • Ability to maintain use-case catalogues, data-source inventories, dashboard inventories, runbooks, and service metrics.
  • Advanced SPL development and optimization, data models, accelerated searches, correlation searches, macros, lookups, and enterprise-scale dashboard design.
  • Strong experience in detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, use-case lifecycle management, tuning methodology, and security-content governance.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex ingestion architecture, heavy forwarders, universal forwarders, HEC, APIs, cloud integrations, and data-routing issues.
  • Knowledge of Splunk Cloud architecture, search performance, ingestion forecasting, retention, index strategy, and cost/license optimization.
  • Ability to lead RCA, problem management, technical reviews, platform upgrades, automation, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
  • Experience with Python, REST APIs, Git, CI/CD, and automation of Splunk administration and content deployment.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Exceptional project management and organizational abilities.
  • Team collaboration and leadership skills.
  • Client-focused approach with a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service.

Certifications (Good to have)

Good to have relevant certificates like (any of the below):

  • Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Splunk Cloud Certified Admin, or Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin.
  • CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CySA+, or equivalent security certification is preferred.

Educational Qualifications

  • University degree in IT or/and IT Security.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science/ IT or any relevant fields.

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Skills

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