Senior Splunk Architect: Security Monitoring & IR

Piper Companies; Newington (VA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Paid Holidays

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Tuition Reimbursement

Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to support a cybersecurity program focused on enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. This on-site role is located in Newington, VA, where you will serve as the technical SME for designing, administering, and optimizing Splunk environments to enhance security visibility and operational effectiveness.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in Splunk engineering and related fields, hands-on expertise with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Splunk engineering, SIEM administration, cybersecurity monitoring, security analytics, or security operations.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise, log management, event correlation, alert tuning, detection engineering, and Splunk architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Windows, Linux, firewall, IDS/IPS, cloud, and network security logs; scripting in Python/PowerShell/Bash.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS or related field.
• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, administer, and maintain Splunk Enterprise in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Develop and optimize correlation searches, dashboards, data models, detection content, and alerting capabilities.
• Lead data onboarding: parsing, normalization, CIM mapping, and integration of security and operational data sources.
• Perform system health checks, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and platform optimization.
• Collaborate with SOC, Threat Intelligence, and Security Engineering teams to improve threat detection, hunting, and incident response.

Skills

Splunk engineering

SIEM administration

Cybersecurity monitoring

Security analytics

Security operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer to support a cybersecurity program focused on enterprise security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response. This on-site role is located in Newington, VA, where you will serve as the technical SME for designing, administering, and optimizing Splunk environments to enhance security visibility and operational effectiveness.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in Splunk engineering and related fields, hands-on expertise with