Splunk Engineer​/Architect Security Clearance

Position: Splunk Engineer/Architect with Security Clearance
Piper Companies is seeking a Splunk Engineer / Architect to support a leading organization in the cybersecurity and enterprise technology industry. The Splunk Engineer / Architect will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-scale Splunk environments within a SOC, with a strong focus on backend engineering and architectural design rather than dashboarding or end-user analytics. The Splunk Engineer/Architect is a long term contract opportunity, requires an active Secret Clearance and requires you to work onsite 5 days per week in RTP, NC.

Responsibilities of the Splunk Engineer / Architect:
* Design and deploy scalable, highly available Splunk architectures across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

* Lead Splunk engineering efforts including installation, configuration, upgrades, and ongoing platform maintenance (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering).

* Develop and execute data ingestion strategies, including onboarding, normalization, parsing, and performance optimization.

* Establish governance, platform standards, and best practices to ensure long-term scalability and reliability.

* Support SOC operations by building and tuning SIEM use cases, correlation searches, and alerts aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.

* Collaborate with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to enhance threat detection, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
Requirements of the Splunk Engineer / Architect:
* Active Secret Clearance required.

* 5+ years of hands-on Splunk Engineering/Architecture experience (backend focus, not dashboarding).

* Strong expertise with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) in large-scale environments.

* Deep understanding of data ingestion, indexing, clustering (indexer/search head), and search optimization.

* Experience supporting Splunk within a SOC and contributing to SIEM/security monitoring strategies.
Compensation for the Splunk Engineer / Architect: * $140,000-$180,000

* Full Comprehensive Benefits:
Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.
&CK, threat detection, logging strategy, monitoring, cybersecurity, backend Splunk engineering, RTP jobs, active secret clearance This job opens for applications on 07/17/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date. #LI-AG1 #ONSITE