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Splunk Architect Lead (CBP)

Agile Defense· Cybersecurity
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Hybrid (Reston, VA)$175k - $225k + bonusRegularPosted 8mo ago

About the role

Splunk Architect/Lead to support enterprise cybersecurity programs delivering 24/7/365 CSOC services for USG customers, providing expert leadership on enterprise logging, SIEM engineering, and data integration across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, engineering, configuration, and optimization of enterprise logging platforms supporting CSOC operations.
  • Act as the primary technical authority for SIEM architecture, log ingestion pipelines, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and storage strategies.
  • Manage onboarding of new data sources across applications, endpoints, networks, cloud environments, and identity systems.
  • Ensure log health monitoring, cluster health, pipeline resiliency, and integrity validation for continuous reliability.
  • Enable dashboard creation, correlation rules, and alerting by guaranteeing high-quality, normalized data.
  • Maintain compliance with logging standards, federal mandates, and Zero Trust visibility requirements.
  • Drive modernization initiatives, including automation, cloud logging integrations, and data optimization.
  • Produce technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and detailed reports.
  • Support vulnerability assessments, compliance audits, and cross-team engineering reviews.

Qualifications

  • Active Certified Splunk Architect (II)
  • Last 5 years of experience serving as a senior Certified Splunk Administrator or Architect in large environment
  • Experience in enterprise IT environments with Windows and Linux
  • Experience with bash, python and/or PowerShell scripting
  • Strong networking and security background
  • Experience with cloud orchestration tools and AWS cloud services
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, Cybersecurity, STEM or related field.

Skills

Required:Splunk architectureLog management and SIEMWindows and Linux administrationScripting (bash/python/PowerShell)
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