Sr. SOC Engineer (Splunk)

• Own day-to-day Splunk admin for SOC (backend): keep the platform healthy, stable, and performant.
• Onboard and maintain 10–20+ security log sources (estimate), including ongoing ingestion maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Manage/maintain configs related to ingestion pipelines, add-ons/apps, indexes/retention, and platform hygiene.
• Build/maintain integrations to ensure security telemetry flows reliably from cloud sources, endpoints, infrastructure, and security tools.
• Set up operational monitoring for Splunk itself (log source drops, ingestion failures, expensive searches).
• Partner with SOC analysts + infra/IAM teams to resolve access and telemetry issues quickly.
Participate in on-call focused on Splunk/logging continuity

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• 7+ years in Splunk administration / SIEM engineering / SOC tooling with real backend ownership
• Proven experience running Splunk in production (Splunk Cloud or Enterprise), including:
○ Log source onboarding + ingestion pipeline troubleshooting
○ Index/retention concepts and operational platform support
• Experience ingesting logs from a mix of sources such as:
○ Cloud log sources (Azure/AWS)
○ On-prem systems, Windows endpoints, Linux, firewalls, security tools, SaaS
• Strong troubleshooting ability: identify and fix source drops, ingestion failures, parsing/config issues, access problems.
• Working scripting ability (Python and/or PowerShell) for automation and operational efficiency.
Cost/performance awareness in Splunk (understands how ingestion volume and search behavior impact licensing and stability).

• Splunk cost optimization experience (reducing noisy data, improving search efficiency, retention tuning).
• Experience creating operational alerts (log drop/offline, ingestion errors, runaway searches).
• Familiarity with Splunk SOAR support (integrations/operations) — (not the main focus.)
• Strong documentation habits (runbooks, data flow diagrams).
Splunk certs: Core User/Power User/Admin/Architect.

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.