Senior Splunk Engineer
Zachary Piper Solutions · North Carolina, United States · 6 days ago
Information Technology$140k–$160k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Splunk infrastructure, including indexers, forwarders, and search heads in secure, high-availability environments.
- Develop and optimize data onboarding pipelines, ensuring reliable ingestion and normalization of large-scale log and event data.
- Manage Splunk architecture performance, including capacity planning, scaling strategies, and system tuning.
- Implement secure configurations and maintain compliance with government and security standards.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to enhance monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities across systems.
Requirements
- Active Secret Clearance is required
- 5+ years of hands-on Splunk engineering or architecture experience with a focus on backend infrastructure (not dashboarding or end-user analytics).
- Strong expertise in Splunk Enterprise architecture, including deployment, configuration, and performance optimization.
- Experience working in secure or regulated environments, preferably within government or defense sectors.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and log management best practices.
Pay
$140,000 – $160,000 annually
Schedule
Onsite work requirement (RTP, 5 days per week)
Benefits
- Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.