Added - 2 days ago Senior Splunk Engineer IT Administration/Engineer Austin , Rhode Island

Luna Data Solutions Inc.; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Luna Data Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to lead the deployment, integration, and ongoing support of a Cisco Splunk platform across an enterprise environment in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities include designing scalable data ingestion pipelines, developing dashboards and alerts, ensuring high availability, and supporting security (SIEM) and observability use cases. This contract role invites hands-on architecture, optimization, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Splunk engineering/administration.
• Splunk architecture and distributed deployments.
• Data onboarding and parsing.
• Search Processing Language (SPL).
• Experience with Cisco ecosystem integrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end rollout of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform across the organization.
• Design and implement scalable Splunk architectures (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering).
• Integrate Splunk with other Cisco platforms.
• Develop data onboarding strategies (logs, metrics, events, network telemetry).
• Operations & Support.
• Provide day-to-day administration of Splunk environments.
• Monitor system health, performance, and data ingestion pipelines.
• Troubleshoot ingestion issues, search performance, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Manage upgrades, patches, and system tuning.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies.

Skills

Splunk engineering

SPL

Linux/Unix

Networking

Security frameworks

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Senior Splunk Engineer – Contract – Austin, TX

Job Description

We have an exciting Senior Splunk Engineer opportunity in Austin, TX. This role will lead the deployment, integration, and ongoing support of a Cisco Splunk platform across an enterprise environment. This role will be responsible for architecting scalable data ingestion pipelines, developing dashboards and alerts, and ensuring high availability and performance of Splunk infrastructure to support both security (SIEM) and observability use cases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end rollout of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform across the organization
• Design and implement scalable Splunk architectures (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering)
• Integrate Splunk with other Cisco platforms:
• Develop data onboarding strategies (logs, metrics, events, network telemetry)
• Operations & Support
• Provide day-to-day administration of Splunk environments
• Monitor system health, performance, and data ingestion pipelines
• Troubleshoot ingestion issues, search performance, and infrastructure bottlenecks
• Manage upgrades, patches, and system tuning
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies

Minimum Requirements

5+ years of experience in Splunk engineering/administration

• Splunk architecture and distributed deployments
• Data onboarding and parsing
• Search Processing Language (SPL)
• Experience with Cisco ecosystem integrations

• Linux/Unix systems
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls)
• Security frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK)
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments

What We Offer

• Great opportunity to make a big impact and take ownership on technology initiatives
• Altruistic work
• Competitive compensation and benefits including health, dental, vision, life and accident insurance, short-term disability insurance and more!

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. A 7 year background check is required for this role.