Splunk Engineer

Job Description:

DXC Technology (NYSE:DXC) - where brilliant people embrace change and seize opportunities to advance their careers and amplify customer success. At DXC we pride ourselves on delivering excellence in everything we do. What this means for you is the opportunity to be a part of delivering innovative solutions and helping to solve real business problems for a wide variety of valued clients.

We're seeking a highly skilled Splunk Engineer / Architect to join our cyber consulting team and work with a leading financial services client. This role is pivotal in integrating and optimising the client's security monitoring capabilities, particularly as they onboard a newly acquired entity into their existing Splunk Enterprise Security environment.

You'll play a key role in designing, building, and enhancing Splunk architectures, driving automation, and improving overall threat detection and response maturity.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Architect Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environments, including data ingestion, parsing, indexing, and storage strategies
• Develop and maintain detection and monitoring use cases aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• Integrate Splunk with diverse data sources including endpoint, network, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and identity platforms
• Build and optimize dashboards, correlation searches, and alerts for SOC and threat detection teams.
• Collaborate with SOAR teams to design automated response workflows.
• Lead Splunk migration or upgrade projects
• Advise clients and internal teams on Splunk licensing, capacity planning, and performance optimisation

Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), Splunk Cloud, and Splunk SOAR
• Experience designing high-availability and distributed Splunk environments
• Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO 27001)
• Understanding of SIEM/SOAR integration and incident response workflows

Note: Only candidates who are Australian Citizens and eligible for (or currently hold) an Australian Federal Government Baseline Security Clearance will be considered.

Our culture and benefits

DXC is committed to building better futures for our customers, colleagues, environment, and communities. We take care of each other and foster a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship. We put this to action developing and implementing societal initiatives within our Social Impact Practice. #WeAreDXC

As an employer of choice, our "people first" philosophy means we offer competitive remuneration, benefits, training, and career opportunities that reflect our commitment to improving the lives of our employees, and the communities in which we live and work.

How to apply & our commitment to you in return

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

DXC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we welcome submissions from people from all walks of life. We celebrate our diversity and recognise it is the unique contributions of our people that give us our edge. We stand by the 'bring your whole-self to work' philosophy. It is our inclusive culture that powers our results, and our company grows only if our people grow.

Accommodation of special needs for qualified candidates may be considered within the framework of the DXC Accommodation Policy. In addition, DXC Technology is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to support qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

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