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Splunk Architect
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Splunk Architect to design, implement, and lead enterprise-scale Splunk solutions for security monitoring, observability, log management, and analytics. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Splunk architecture, data onboarding, search optimization, dashboards, integrations, and large-scale deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and architect highly scalable, secure, and resilient Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud environments.
- Define Splunk architecture, deployment models, data flows, indexing strategies, and retention policies.
- Lead implementation and migration of enterprise Splunk platforms.
- Develop and optimize SPL queries, dashboards, reports, alerts, and data models.
- Integrate Splunk with enterprise applications, cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and security tools.
- Design solutions for SIEM, security monitoring, IT operations, application monitoring, and observability.
- Implement and manage data ingestion from servers, applications, network devices, cloud services, and security platforms.
- Optimize indexing, search performance, storage, licensing, and platform capacity.
- Establish Splunk security, RBAC, governance, and operational best practices.
- Provide technical leadership, architecture documentation, and design recommendations.
- Troubleshoot complex Splunk performance, ingestion, and search-related issues.
- Collaborate with security, infrastructure, application, cloud, and DevOps teams.
Required Skills:
- 10 years of experience in IT with strong hands-on Splunk experience.
- Strong experience designing enterprise Splunk architecture and deployment models.
- Expertise in Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).
- Strong proficiency in SPL, dashboards, reports, alerts, and data models.
- Experience with Splunk Indexers, Search Heads, Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders, and Cluster Management.
- Experience with data onboarding, parsing, field extraction, CIM, and source types.
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience with Python, REST APIs, and automation.
- Experience integrating Splunk with SIEM, cybersecurity, cloud, and monitoring platforms.
- Knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong understanding of networking, security, authentication, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Splunk certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin, or Splunk Core Certified Power User.
- Experience with SOAR, ITSI, Observability, or OpenTelemetry.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and microservices.
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and technical leadership skills.