Splunk IT Data Engineer, Staff

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Data Engineer

General Summary:

This role will join the Qualcomm IT Operations Management and Analytics (ITOMA) team that is responsible for managing the global Splunk and Cribl infrastructure.

This is a strategic position and will be instrumental in the design, implementation, support, performance, and integrity of the Splunk ecosystem. You will work closely with multiple stakeholders and global partners. You will provide technology leadership in support of the overall Splunk and Cribl strategy.

This is a multi-disciplinary role that will interact directly with developers and different functional IT, Security and Engineering teams to gather requirements, architect solutions and ensure the Splunk and Cribl platforms are leveraged as key data collection and processing platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
OR
7+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

• 3+ years of work experience with programming (e.g., Java, Python).
• 3+ years of work experience with SQL or NoSQL Databases.
• 3+ years of work experience with Data Structures and algorithms.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Working independently with no supervision.

• Decisions are more significant in their impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives. Errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results. Errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.

• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).

• Most tasks do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.

• Exceptional creativity is needed to innovate new ideas and develop innovative products/ processes without established objectives or known parameters.

• Deductive and inductive problem solving is required; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Programs data pipelines and system integrations; optimizes and maintains distributed data flows.

• Improves data quality and participates in data governance and reliability activities; develops and maintains data catalog; implements data enrichment, data cleansing, and data quality improvements.

• Designs optimal data models, builds and manages summarized datasets, leads performance tuning activities, and designs and develops data APIs.

• Performs intermediate level statistical analysis; implements machine learning pipelines in production.

• Provides guidance and feedback to junior data engineers on the execution of associated tasks.

• Analyzes data to discover tasks that can be automated; identifies process improvements; implements automation; develops prototypes and proofs of concept for the selected solutions.

• Networks with senior leaders and seeks out learning opportunities to increase own knowledge, skill, and overall expertise in field.

• Serves as a technical lead on a feature or system, assigns work to a small project team, and works on advanced technical tasks to complete a project.

• Works with internal and external stakeholders to support and drive efforts for the translation of data needs into technical system requirements.

• Discusses technical issues with project lead to address challenges and resolve problems.

• Leads technical conversations with more junior level data engineers and presents solutions to technical challenges.

• Writes clear and detailed technical documentation for complex or difficult projects.

• Participate in on-call rotation for escalated support

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience with Splunk/Cribl

• Splunk developer/data admin experience creating and managing knowledge objects (field extractions, macros, event types, etc.)

• Experience with Splunk applications and dashboard development

• Splunk Administration and/or Splunk Architecture experience

• UNIX/Linux experience

• Ansible experience

• Python/Perl script development experience

• GIT/GitHub experience

• Java scripting experience to augment Splunk visualizations

• Strong communication skills and the ability to convey complex issues to diverse audiences in an easily understandable and actionable way

• Proven ability to engage collaboratively with people in diverse teams and geographical locations

• Software/Scripting development in Python/Perl

• Splunk power user and app development

• AWS and/or Azure experience

• Datadog observability platform experience

• A broad technical and business understanding and experience

Physical Requirements

• Frequently transports between offices, buildings, and campuses up to ½ mile.

• Frequently transports and installs equipment up to 5 lbs.

• Performs required tasks at various heights (e.g., standing or sitting).

• Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.

• Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$132,000.00 - $198,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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