Splunk Engineer

Fannie Mae

Splunk Engineer providing technical solutions and expert advice at Fannie Mae. Collaborating across teams to meet customer needs in designing and maintaining technical processes.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timePlano • Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $155,000 - $209,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudLinuxPythonSplunkUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide expert advice to the team
Participate in designing, developing, testing, and/or maintaining hardware, technology, and/or processes
Determine the needs of customer groups across multiple projects, programs, or products
Identify and resolve conflicting and/or complementary needs
Design and develop technical solutions, including leading matrixed teams
Oversee the maintenance of existing technical solutions

Requirements

What you’ll need

6 years of hands-on Splunk administration and engineering experience
Strong understanding of Splunk architecture (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering, licensing)
Proficiency in SPL (Search Processing Language)
Experience with onboarding data from multiple sources (syslog, APIs, cloud platforms, security tools)
Familiarity with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)
Solid background in Linux/Unix system administration
Scripting skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle, and other benefits
Incentive program eligibility

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Hard Skills & Tools

Splunk administrationSplunk architectureSPL (Search Processing Language)Linux/Unix system administrationscripting (Python)scripting (Bash)scripting (PowerShell)troubleshootingproblem-solvingdata onboarding

Soft Skills

expert adviceteam leadershipcommunicationconflict resolutioncustomer needs assessment