Senior Splunk Engineer: SIEM & Data Analytics Architect

Gilder Search Group; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan with Employer Match

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Professional Certification Incentive

Employee Referral Plan

Technology Exposure

Job summary

Advanced Systems Design, Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Consultant - Splunk Engineer for our client in Montgomery, AL.

The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud architectures to support security monitoring, log management, and operational analytics. You will develop dashboards, alerts, reports, searches, and data models; integrate sources across infrastructure, cloud, and security tools; and build pipelines to parse and route data to Splunk.

Qualifications

• Experience in Splunk architecture, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, and deployment server.
• Experience developing Splunk dashboards, reports, alerts, tuning alerts, and saved searches.
• Experience onboarding and normalizing log sources from infrastructure, applications, cloud platforms, and security tools.
• Experience building pipelines to parse, normalize, enrich, and route data to Splunk.
• Proficiency with SPL, data models, and role-based access controls.
• Knowledge of SIEM concepts, security monitoring, and threat detection use cases.
• Networking fundamentals, including TCP/UDP, TLS, syslog, firewall ports, and transport issues.
• Experience in Linux and Windows administration.
• Certifications: Splunk Core Certified Power User, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin, or Splunk Enterprise Security.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud architectures to support security monitoring and operational analytics.
• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, alerts, reports, searches, and data models.
• Integrate data sources into Splunk from infrastructure, cloud, applications, and security tools.
• Build pipelines to parse, normalize, enrich, and route data to Splunk.
• Support use case development for threat detection, incident response, and compliance monitoring.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and administration procedures.
• Administer RBAC and monitor health, performance, and availability of Splunk environments.
• Explain complex concepts to analysts, leadership, and non-technical partners.
• Utilize strong communication and presentation skills.
• Recognize, analyze, and solve diverse problems.

Skills

Splunk architecture

SPL

Security monitoring

Threat detection

Linux administration

Windows administration

RBAC

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Cloud

Splunk dashboards/reports/alerts

SOAR (preferred)

Job description

Advanced Systems Design, Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Consultant - Splunk Engineer for our client in Montgomery, AL.

The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimizing Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud architectures to support security monitoring, log management, and operational analytics. You will develop dashboards, alerts, reports, searches, and data models; integrate sources across infrastructure, cloud, and security tools; and build pipelines to parse and route data to Splunk.