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# Senior Splunk Administrator

- **Company:** MANTECH-1 L.L.C.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,900.0 - $195,050.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Data Validation, Network Connections, Data Ingestion, Indexer, Information Technology, Splunk
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usc5598d836edaba6f253c5cd06094f289

## About the Role

* Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance
 * Active IAT II certification (i.e., Security+, CySA+, CCNA-Security, GSEC, CND, GICSP, SSCP)
 * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer. Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent degree
 * 5+ years of Splunk administration or engineering experience.
 * Hands-on experience supporting a distributed enterprise Splunk environment
 * Experience with indexer clusters, search head clusters, heavy forwarders, universal forwarders, deployment servers, and related Splunk components.
 * Splunk certification preferred

## Description

GCYber is seeking a Senior Splunk Administrator, to support a high-profile government customer. This is a hands-on administration role responsible for data ingestion, dashboard development, and resolving issues when data is missing, delayed, duplicated, or incorrectly parsed.
As the Senior Splunk Administrator, you will:

 * Administer and monitor an enterprise Splunk environment, including indexer clusters, search head clusters, heavy and universal forwarders, deployment servers, deployers, cluster managers, and monitoring consoles.
 * Troubleshoot missing, delayed, duplicated, incorrectly parsed, or incorrectly routed data across the complete ingestion path.
 * Configure and maintain Splunk inputs, outputs, indexes, sourcetypes, routing, filtering, timestamp extraction, and event parsing.
 * Build and maintain Splunk dashboards, reports, alerts, and saved searches that provide useful operational and cybersecurity visibility.
 * Work with stakeholders to define dashboard requirements, identify the right data, and present results in a clear and actionable format.
 * Develop and optimize SPL searches that support dashboards, data validation, troubleshooting, trend analysis, and operational reporting.
 * Diagnose issues involving forwarders, blocked queues, certificates, network connectivity, indexing, permissions, dashboards, and search logic., Description The Defense sector at Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support a fast-paced Department of Defense (DoD) program supporting the Air Force Li…
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