- Excellent remuneration (variable with experience level)
- Upskill your technical expertise with paid for certifications
- Join #4 Best Place in Australia to Work
Why AC3?
At AC3, our purpose is simple: make technology real. We help Australian organisations turn technology into practical, measurable business outcomes - not slideware, jargon or theoretical nonsense.
We are an Australian-owned ICT provider working with enterprise, corporate and government customers across cloud, security, networking, professional services and managed services. Our culture is built around the AC3 Way:
Work Wise, Work Humble and Work Honest.
The opportunity
We are looking for a hands-on Splunk Consultant to join our Professional Services team and deliver practical, customer-facing consulting across Splunk Core Platform and/or Enterprise Security, with a developing focus on Observability.
You will be close to the tools, close to the customer and close to the outcome - running discovery, configuring solutions, implementing use cases, producing technical documentation and helping customers translate Splunk capability into business value.
You will be deployed to customer engagements on a daily-rate basis, with an expectation of four days per week client billable work, delivered onsite or remotely depending on customer requirements.
What you will be doing
- Deliver hands-on Splunk consulting including discovery, configuration, implementation, optimisation and support transition.
- Configure and implement Splunk Core Platform and/or Enterprise Security across customer environments.
- Work across data onboarding, indexing, sourcetypes, field extractions, lookups, dashboards, alerts, knowledge objects and use cases.
- Apply architecture thinking to produce practical designs, implementation plans, runbooks and handover documentation.
- Translate technical concepts, risks and trade-offs into clear business language for non-technical stakeholders.
- Support presales, technical discovery, proof-of-concept activity, proposals and Statements of Work where required.
- Contribute to reusable consulting assets, accelerators, best-practice patterns and AC3's growing Splunk capability.
- Build strong customer relationships and operate as a trusted advisor across enterprise, corporate and government accounts.
What you will bring
- Previous consulting, professional services or client-facing delivery experience, ideally with an MSP, systems integrator, vendor or consultancy provider.
- Hands-on Splunk configuration and implementation experience in production or enterprise customer environments.
- Experience with Splunk Core Platform and/or Splunk Enterprise Security.
- Strong practical capability across SPL, dashboards, alerts, indexes, forwarders, sourcetypes, field extractions, lookups, CIM/data models and search performance.
- The ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, project stakeholders and business people.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to operate with autonomy in billable client engagements.
- Strong written communication skills, including technical designs, configuration records, runbooks, handover documents and engagement status reporting.
- A pragmatic, customer-focused approach with the confidence to solve problems, make recommendations and keep delivery moving.
Nice to have
- Architecture or solution design experience across Splunk deployment patterns, data ingestion, security/observability use cases and integration landscapes.
- Splunk Observability, ITSI or SOAR experience - or a genuine appetite to learn Observability quickly.
- Experience with Enterprise Security use cases including correlation searches, notable events, threat detection, risk-based alerting and SOC workflows.
- Exposure to cloud, infrastructure, applications, networking, security operations, DevOps or SRE environments.
- Relevant Splunk certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, Architect, Consultant, Enterprise Security or Observability certifications.
- ITIL, cloud, cyber security, DevOps, SRE or related vendor certifications.
Why this role is worth a look
- You will get genuine hands-on delivery, not just endless meetings about delivery.
- You will work with customers where Splunk matters to security, operations, observability and business-critical decision-making.
- You will help shape repeatable consulting offerings across Core Platform, Enterprise Security and Observability.
- You will join a team that values practical outcomes, clear communication and people who can make complex technology feel usable.
The AC3 way
We would love for you to experience the AC3 way:
- Work Wise - as one AC3, we put our combined skills to work to ensure we do more good, for much less. All in service of our customers and each other.
- Work Humble - as a team, we bring our authentic selves to the world of tech. It is our down-to-earth, humble nature that makes us unique and easy to work with.
- Work Honest - we are here to do an honest day's work, individually and as a team. We are constantly looking for opportunities to take the initiative and implement practical solutions.
Ready to make technology real?
Apply now and help AC3 customers get real value from Splunk across security, platform and observability outcomes.
