Senior Splunk Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Baltimore, MD or Washington, DC (Hybrid, up to 3 days remote per week)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

Our client is seeking a highly experienced Splunk Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, deployment, administration, and optimization of enterprise log management and observability platforms. This individual will play a critical role within a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, ensuring monitoring and analytics solutions remain scalable, secure, and highly available across complex enterprise environments.

The ideal candidate combines deep Splunk expertise with strong infrastructure engineering capabilities and a passion for automation, operational excellence, and mentoring other engineers. This role offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide standards, drive strategic initiatives, and serve as a trusted advisor on logging, monitoring, and observability technologies.

Splunk & Observability Engineering

• Design, implement, and support enterprise-scale Splunk environments, including administration, onboarding, performance tuning, and platform optimization.
• Develop scalable logging and monitoring solutions that support business-critical applications and infrastructure.
• Lead initiatives to improve system reliability, observability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish best practices and standards for log ingestion, retention, analytics, and platform management.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that enhance monitoring and operational capabilities.
• Drive infrastructure modernization efforts across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for Splunk and log management platforms.
• Lead complex projects involving multiple infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Provide escalation support for critical incidents and complex troubleshooting efforts.
• Identify trends, root causes, and hidden performance issues using data analysis and observability platforms.
• Guide infrastructure lifecycle decisions, including upgrades, migrations, and technology refreshes.
• Promote automation and operational excellence through modern engineering practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across the organization.
• Support hiring efforts through technical interviews and candidate evaluations.
• Foster collaboration among infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams.
• Help drive consensus on technical decisions and architectural direction.
• Ensure adherence to engineering standards, operational procedures, and governance requirements.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, observability, or platform engineering environments.
• Deep expertise with Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Cloud, and/or Cribl technologies.
• Strong experience administering large-scale monitoring, logging, and analytics platforms.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS
  , Linux administration, networking, identity management, and access controls.
• Hands-on experience with automation technologies such as Ansible and AWX
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• Experience working in Agile environments utilizing tools such as JIRA and Confluence
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• Strong understanding of infrastructure testing, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical challenges and lead large-scale engineering initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience with in asset management, financial services, or other highly regulated industries.
• Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and operational excellence frameworks.
• Splunk certifications or other observability-related certifications.
• Experience supporting enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

This full-time direct hire position offers the opportunity to take ownership of an enterprise observability platform while working on large-scale cloud and infrastructure initiatives. You'll have significant influence over platform strategy, engineering standards, automation, and the future direction of monitoring and log management capabilities across the organization.