Splunk Engineer/Architect

Piper Companies is seeking a Splunk Engineer / Architect to support a leading organization in the cybersecurity and enterprise technology industry. The Splunk Engineer / Architect will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-scale Splunk environments within a SOC, with a strong focus on backend engineering and architectural design rather than dashboarding or end-user analytics. The Splunk Engineer/Architect is a long term contract opportunity, requires an active Secret Clearance and requires you to work onsite 5 days per week in RTP, NC.

• Design and deploy scalable, highly available Splunk architectures across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Lead Splunk engineering efforts including installation, configuration, upgrades, and ongoing platform maintenance (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering).
• Develop and execute data ingestion strategies, including onboarding, normalization, parsing, and performance optimization.
• Establish governance, platform standards, and best practices to ensure long-term scalability and reliability.
• Support SOC operations by building and tuning SIEM use cases, correlation searches, and alerts aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to enhance threat detection, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.

• 5+ years of hands-on Splunk Engineering/Architecture experience (backend focus, not dashboarding).
• Strong expertise with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) in large-scale environments.
• Deep understanding of data ingestion, indexing, clustering (indexer/search head), and search optimization.
• Experience supporting Splunk within a SOC and contributing to SIEM/security monitoring strategies.

• $140,000-$180,000
• Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.

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