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# Senior Splunk Engineer

- **Company:** LUNA DATA SOLUTIONS
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $176,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Cluster Analysis, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Parsing, Security Information and Event Management, Systems Integration, TCP/IP, Cloud Platform System, Data Ingestion, System Availability, Mitre Att&ck, Firewalls (Computer Science), Splunk, Data Pipelines, Cisco
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4be3ee298cd87301

## About the Role

5+ years of experience in Splunk engineering/administration
Hands-on experience with:

 * Splunk architecture and distributed deployments
 * Data onboarding and parsing
 * Search Processing Language (SPL)
 * Experience with Cisco ecosystem integrations

Strong knowledge of:

 * Linux/Unix systems
 * Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls)
 * Security frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK)
 * Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments

## Description

We have an exciting Senior Splunk Engineer opportunity in Austin, TX. This role will lead the deployment, integration, and ongoing support of a Cisco Splunk platform across an enterprise environment. This role will be responsible for architecting scalable data ingestion pipelines, developing dashboards and alerts, and ensuring high availability and performance of Splunk infrastructure to support both security (SIEM) and observability use cases., * Lead the end-to-end rollout of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform across the organization

 * Design and implement scalable Splunk architectures (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering)
 * Integrate Splunk with other Cisco platforms:
 * Develop data onboarding strategies (logs, metrics, events, network telemetry)
 * Operations & Support
 * Provide day-to-day administration of Splunk environments
 * Monitor system health, performance, and data ingestion pipelines
 * Troubleshoot ingestion issues, search performance, and infrastructure bottlenecks
 * Manage upgrades, patches, and system tuning
 * Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies


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