Monitoring Engineer

Senior Splunk Engineer — Long-Term Contract | Austin, Texas (Onsite)

We are looking for Senior Splunk Engineers for a long-term contract opportunity in Austin, Texas. This is an onsite position.

Responsibilities

• Work within an enterprise architecture and DevSecOps tools team supporting a large-scale IT organization.
• Contribute to an enterprise logging initiative by onboarding numerous systems and data sources into Splunk.
• Ingest and manage data from network, cloud, server, and application sources.
• Perform operational monitoring and troubleshooting using Splunk, including searches, dashboards, and alerting workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional IT teams to ensure reliable data ingestion and actionable alerting.
• Support log onboarding and validation processes across multiple systems.
• Design and optimize Splunk dashboards and alerts to provide actionable insights.
• Develop KPI-driven visualizations, real-time and scheduled alerts, and anomaly-based detections.
• Tune and suppress alerts to reduce noise and improve operational efficiency.
• Align Splunk implementations with operational, security, and business use cases.

You:

• 4 years of hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud.
• 4 years of advanced proficiency in Search Processing Language (SPL), including writing optimized searches and tuning performance at scale.
• 4 years working with data onboarding, including source type design, field extraction (regex, props.conf, transforms.conf), timestamp recognition, and index strategy.
• 4 years managing Splunk Technology Add-ons (TAs) for data onboarding, normalization, and CIM alignment.
• 4 years working with Common Information Model (CIM) mapping.
• 4 years designing and building Splunk dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions.
• 2 years of exposure to cloud-native log sources (preferred).
• 2 years of familiarity with security tools such as EDR, IAM, firewalls, and IDS/IPS (preferred).
• 2 years of experience working in regulated environments (preferred).
• One or more Splunk certifications (e.g., Architect, Admin, Certified Consultant) (preferred).

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits, including health, dental, vision, life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Great work-life balance.

This is a long-term contract opportunity in Austin, Texas and no sponsorship can be provided. To apply, please email resumes to Candidates must be able to pass a background check. Luna Data Solutions, Inc. (LDS) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment. LDS prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regarding age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, national origin, genetics, protected veteran status, and/or disability status.