Senior Splunk Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain Splunk infrastructure, including indexers, forwarders, and search heads in secure, high-availability environments.

• Develop and optimize data onboarding pipelines, ensuring reliable ingestion and normalization of large-scale log and event data.

• Manage Splunk architecture performance, including capacity planning, scaling strategies, and system tuning.

• Implement secure configurations and maintain compliance with government and security standards.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to enhance monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities across systems.

• Active Secret Clearance is required

• 5+ years of hands-on Splunk engineering or architecture experience with a focus on backend infrastructure (not dashboarding or end-user analytics).

• Strong expertise in Splunk Enterprise architecture, including deployment, configuration, and performance optimization.

• Experience working in secure or regulated environments, preferably within government or defense sectors.

• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and log management best practices.

• $140,000 - $160,000 annually

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

• Onsite work requirement (RTP, 5 days per week)

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Splunk Engineer for a growing client in the cybersecurity/government contracting industry in the Raleigh-Durham (RTP), NC area. The Senior Splunk Engineer role requires you to sit onsite 5 days a week in RTP. The Senior Splunk Engineer role is ideal for an experienced engineer with deep expertise in Splunk architecture, backend engineering, and large-scale log aggregation environments supporting secure systems.