Added - Senior Splunk Engineer Austin , Texas

Senior Splunk Engineer – Austin, Texas – Contract

We have an exciting Senior Splunk Engineer opportunity with a state agency in Austin, TX. This role works with IT developers to facilitate better coordination among operations, development, and testing functions by automating and streamlining integration and deployment processes. Dev Ops aims at coupling a tighter alignment between IT operations and businesses.

• 8 years of hands‑on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud
• 8 years of experience with designing and implementing scalable and highly available Splunk architecture:
  • Indexers, Search Heads, Cluster Master
  • Heavy Forwarders, Universal Forwarders
  • Deployments
• Advanced proficiency in Search Processing Language (SPL). Ability to:
  • Write efficient, optimized searches
  • Use stats, timechart, eval, lookup, transaction, and data model commands
  • Tune searches for performance at scale
• Experience in data onboarding. Strong skills in:
  • Source type design
  • Field extraction (regex, props.conf, transforms.conf)
  • Timestamp recognition and line breaking
  • Index design and strategy
• 8 years of experience managing Splunk Technology Add‑ons (TAs) for data onboarding, normalization, and CIM alignment.
• 8 years of experience with Common Information Model (CIM) mapping
• Ability to design, build, and optimize Splunk dashboards and alerts that provide actionable insights, including KPI‑driven visualizations, real‑time and scheduled alerts, threshold and anomaly‑based detections, alert suppression/tuning to reduce noise, and alignment with operational, security, and business use cases.
• Dev Ops automation for the management of Splunk environments.
• Leadership in technical workshops, discovery, and requirement sessions. Ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Great opportunity to make a big impact and take ownership on technology initiatives
• Altruistic work
• Competitive compensation and benefits including health, dental, vision, life and accident insurance, short‑term disability insurance and more!

Luna Data Solutions, Inc. (LDS) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment. LDS prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regarding age, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, national origin, genetics, protected veteran status, and/or disability status. A 7 year background check is required for this role.