Splunk Architecture, Resiliency Engineer
xScion Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Virginia • United States
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About the role
- Support enterprise customers in designing, implementing, and optimizing highly available and resilient Splunk environments within complex production infrastructures
- Focus on ensuring operational continuity, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and performance scalability for Splunk deployments
- Work with client stakeholders including platform engineering teams, cybersecurity operations, cloud engineering teams, and enterprise architects
- Assess existing Splunk environments and develop resiliency improvement roadmaps
- Identify and remediate single points of failure across infrastructure, networking, and Splunk configurations
- Implement monitoring, health checks, and automated recovery procedures for Splunk components
- Conduct capacity planning and resilience testing (failover, DR simulations)
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 5–10+ years of experience in enterprise platform engineering, observability platforms, or log analytics systems
- 3+ years deep experience with Splunk Enterprise administration or engineering
- Hands-on experience implementing indexer clustering, search head clustering, and distributed search
- Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery architectures
- Strong understanding of Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems architectures
- Experience operating in large enterprise environments (10+ TB/day ingestion preferred)
- US Citizenship required
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Splunk Cloud Platform, Terraform, Ansible, Docker
- Familiarity with observability ecosystems and data pipeline architectures
- Splunk certifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending
- Up to 27 days off a year (including your birthday!)
- Remote work opportunities
- Parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Professional development opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
Splunk Enterprise administrationindex clusteringsearch head clusteringdistributed searchhigh availability architecturedisaster recovery architectureLinux systems administrationnetworking fundamentalsdistributed systems architecturecapacity planning
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationstakeholder engagementanalytical thinking
Certifications
Splunk Enterprise Certified ArchitectSplunk Enterprise Certified Admin