Cyber Security Specialist

Cognizant

2 - 5 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 17/05/2025

Job Description



Job Summary

As a Cyber Security Specialist you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our digital assets and ensuring the integrity of our systems. You will leverage your expertise in Splunk Phantom and Splunk to monitor analyze and respond to security threats. This hybrid role offers the flexibility to work both remotely and on-site during day shifts with no travel required.


Responsibilities

Systems Engineer Splunk Admin DevOps Linux admin with Splunk skillset

Job Requirements

Build Deploy and Manage the Splunk Enterprise to ensure that the legacy physical Virtual systems and container infrastructure for businesscritical services are being rigorously and effectively served for high quality logging services with high availability.

Support periodic Observability and infrastructure monitoring tool releases and tool upgrades Environment creation Performance tuning of large scale Prometheus systems

Serve as Devops SRE for the internal observability systems in Visas various data centers across the globe including in Cloud environment

Lead the evaluation selection design deployment and advancement of the portfolio of tools used to provide infrastructure and service monitoring. Ensure tools utilized can provide the critical visibility on modern architectures leveraging technologies such as cloud containers etc.

Maintain upgrade and troubleshoot issues with SPLUNK clusters.

Monitor and audit configurations and participate in the Change Management process to ensure that unauthorized changes do not occur.

Manage patching and updates of Splunk hosts andor Splunk application software.

Design develop recommend and implement Splunk dashboards and alerts in support of the Incident Response team.

Ensure monitoring team increases use of automation and adopts a DevOpsSRE mentality

Qualification

5plus years of enterprise system logging and monitoring tools experience with a desired 5plus years in a relevant critical infrastructure of Enterprise Splunk

3plus yrs of working experience as Splunk Administrator with Cluster Building Data Ingestion Management User Role Management Search Configuration and Optimization.

Strong knowledge on opensource logging and monitoring tools.

Experience with containers logging and monitoring solutions.

Experience with Linux operating system management and administration

Strong understanding of multitier application architectures and application runtime environments

Monitoring the health and performance of the Splunk environment and troubleshooting any issues that arise.

Worked in 247 on call environment. This position does not required night shift

Knowledge of any scripting languages and infrastructure automation technologies will be added advantage

Splunk Admin Certified is a plus

About Company

Cognizant is a global leader in technology and consulting services, helping businesses transform their operations through digital solutions. Specializing in IT services, including software development, business process outsourcing, and consulting, Cognizant supports clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail. With a focus on innovation, Cognizant assists organizations in modernizing their technology, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer experiences. Headquartered in the U.S., it is consistently ranked among the most admired companies in the world and is a member of the NASDAQ-100.

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