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# Senior Splunk Consultant

- **Company:** Terasky, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Software Code Optimization, Continuous Integration, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Windows PowerShell, Azure Active Directory, Ansible, Security Information and Event Management, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Computer Network Technologies, Data Ingestion, Mitre Att&ck, Deployment Automation, Virtual Agents, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** November 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-09ADF35FD26C1D00BE/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on Splunk experiencein production, including 2+ years with Splunk Enterprise Security.
 * Proven experience designing and managing distributed Splunk environments, including search heads, indexers, forwarders, capacity planning and retention configuration.
 * Hands-on experience implementing and configuring Splunk Enterprise Security, including correlation searches, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, risk-based alerting, and asset and identity enrichment.
 * Strong SPL, CIM and data onboarding skills, including props/transforms, field extractions, forwarders, HEC and syslog.
 * Experience optimizing Splunk and ES performance, including search tuning, data model acceleration, search scheduling and concurrency, and detection tuning to reduce false positives.
 * Solid cybersecurity and networking knowledge, including Windows/Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID security logs; hands-on experience with Linux and at least one major cloud provider- AWS, Azure or GCP.
 * Strong analytical, troubleshooting and customer-facing skills
 * scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell, and deployment/configuration automation experience with Terraform or Ansible.
 * Familiarity with Splunk AI Assistant and Splunk MCP Serverfor search, investigation and operational workflows - advantage.
 * Relevant Splunk certifications, or experience with SIEM migrations, SOAR playbooks, Edge/Ingest Processor, observability solutions or CI/CD - advantage.

## Description

We are looking for a Senior Splunk Consultant to serve as the main technical delivery authority for our Splunk practice. You will lead hands-on delivery for enterprise customers, from platform architecture and data onboarding to Splunk Enterprise Security, security integrations and platform optimization. Depending on project needs, you will also support SOAR, observability, SIEM migrations and security proofs of concept.

As a trusted technical advisor, you will guide customers across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, translate business and security needs into practical solutions, and help define technical standards for the practice. You will contribute to presales discussions, solution scoping and delivery estimates, combining deep technical expertise with clear communication.

Customer self-sufficiency is central to the role. Through documentation, workshops and mentoring, you will equip customer teams to operate, troubleshoot, tune and evolve their Splunk environments independently.
Responsibilities

 * Design, implement and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform environments, including architecture, sizing, retention, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
 * Deliver Splunk Enterprise Security solutions, including data onboarding, CIM normalization, MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detections, risk-based alerting, dashboards and reports.
 * Automate deployments and integrate security and ITSM platforms; support solution scoping, technical documentation, workshops and customer knowledge transfer.