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Senior Splunk Engineer Need to be local - Austin TX "ONSITE"

Conquest Consulting
Austin, TX Contractor
POSTED ON 4/18/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2026

Job Description:

Our client company is looking for a "Senior Splunk Engineer".

Local to Austin TX Onsite position.

  • ITSAC Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer II
  • Max Hourly Rate: In accordance with the contractual agreement, kindly provide your most competitive rate.
  • Total Hours: 2080 hours
  • Service Term Expected: 12-month duration
  • Work hours and Location: 8AM 5PM, 6230 E Stassney Ln, Austin, TX 78744.

TxDOT Information Technology Division (ITD) is hiring Senior Splunk Engineers for the ITD Centralized Enterprise Logging Project. Specifically, the worker will be working within the ITD Service Integration & Governance (SIG) Enterprise Architecture DevSecOps Tools Team.

In this role, the worker will be part of a larger team that will be onboarding hundreds of systems and data sources to Splunk to improve the operational efficiency of ITD. Data sources will include network, cloud, server, and application data sources.

Worker must have hands-on experience using Splunk for operational monitoring and troubleshooting, including creating and executing searches, using dashboards, and supporting alerting workflows. Candidate must be able to support log onboarding/validation and collaborate with ITD teams to ensure reliable data ingestion and actionable alerting.

4 Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
4 Advanced proficiency in Search Processing Language (SPL). Ability to:
Write efficient, optimized searches
Use stats, timechart, eval, lookup, transaction, and data model commands
Tune searches for performance at scale
4 Experience in data onboarding. Strong skills in:
Source type design
Field extraction (regex, props.conf, transforms.conf)
Timestamp recognition and line breaking
Index design and strategy
4 Experience managing Splunk Technology Add-ons (TAs) for data onboarding, normalization, and CIM alignment.
4 Experience with Common Information Model (CIM) mapping
4 Ability to design, build, and optimize Splunk dashboards and alerts that provide actionable insights, including KPI-driven visualizations, real-time and scheduled alerts, threshold and anomaly-based detections, alert suppression/tuning to reduce noise, and alignment with operational, security, and business use cases.

2 Experience with Cloud-native log source
2 Experience with security tools (EDR, IAM, firewalls, IDS/IPS)
2 Splunk Cloud FedRAMP
N/A One or more Splunk certifications (e.g., Architect, Admin, Certified Consultant)

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