Senior Splunk Architect - Enterprise Deployments & HA

CDL Labor Logistics; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CDL Labor Logistics seeks an experienced Splunk Architect to design and implement a scalable Splunk Enterprise environment on-site in Doral, FL. The role blends admin duties with architectural leadership across multi-site deployments, cloud and on-prem strategies, and performance tuning.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years deploying large Splunk architectures, familiarity with 30+TB environments, and strong documentation and communication skills. Willingness to travel and lead teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience with deploying large enterprise Splunk architectures.
• Experience with planning large Splunk deployments.
• Experience with documenting large Splunk deployments.
• Experience with designing and architecting large Splunk deployments.
• Good oral and written skills.

Responsibilities

• Ability to fulfill Splunk admin role as well as architect.
• Fully design and architect a Splunk enterprise environment.
• Experience with multi-site clustering architecture and deployment.
• Experience designing multi-site clustering.
• Experience and knowledge of Splunk validated designs.
• Experience with large Splunk deployments 30+TB.
• Experience with ingest vs SVC vs forecasting (predictive) licensing.
• Understanding SVC cloud models.
• Firm understanding of search, indexer and forwarding tiers.
• Working knowledge of smartstore vs traditional frameworks.
• Working knowledge of architecting Splunk for performance.
• Understanding Splunk cloud SaaS vs hybrid models.
• Experience with maximizing traffic flows to Splunk on‑prem and cloud.
• Ability to create custom parsers.
• Working knowledge of Splunk knowledge objects.
• Ability to deploy HA for Cluster Managers and indexer clusters.
• Ability to deploy HA for Deployment Servers.
• Experience with Search head clustering.
• Understanding of site0
• Understanding of search affinity
• Understanding of cluster management.
• Understanding of SF/RF, single and multisite
• Ability to follow through on projects.
• ES and ITSI experience.
• Scripting experience.
• Large enterprise deployments.
• Willing to travel.
• Willingness to work on a team.
• Leadership and extreme ownership skills when taking on a project.
• Documentation and capacity planning skills.
• Splunk architect certification
• Security background
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts
• Understanding of observability.

Skills

Splunk Architecture

Splunk Administration

Multi-site clustering

Hybrid cloud design

Scripting

Security background

Observability

HA deployment

Cloud and on-prem

Large deployments

Leadership

Documentation

Travel willingness

Education

Splunk architect certification

Job description

CDL Labor Logistics seeks an experienced Splunk Architect to design and implement a scalable Splunk Enterprise environment on-site in Doral, FL. The role blends admin duties with architectural leadership across multi-site deployments, cloud and on-prem strategies, and performance tuning.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years deploying large Splunk architectures, familiarity with 30+TB environments, and strong documentation and communication skills. Willingness to travel and lead teams is essential.