Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Splunk Engineer to join our team remotely. This position is contingent upon contract award.
Are you passionate about designing, scaling, and operating Splunk environments and eager to make an immediate technical impact? Join ECS, a leading provider of cloud, AI, data, and enterprise transformation solutions. In this role, you will implement, optimize, and maintain large‑scale Splunk platforms while contributing to architecture, automation, and client‑facing solutions that improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
We are seeking a Sr. Splunk Engineer to join our Professional Services team. The ideal candidate has deep, hands‑on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud and enjoys working directly with customers to design, deploy, and optimize complex observability and SIEM platforms. You will collaborate with cloud, DevOps, security, and client stakeholders to deliver high‑quality Splunk solutions across a variety of enterprise and federal environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environments, including indexers, search heads, forwarders, and management components.
- Lead customer-facing implementations of Splunk for observability, security monitoring, compliance, and operational intelligence.
- Develop and optimize data onboarding, ingestion pipelines, indexing strategies, SPL searches, dashboards, alerts, and correlation searches.
- Design and implement Splunk use cases aligned to customer requirements and mission outcomes.
- Write scripts, automation, and integrations (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to improve data ingestion, enrichment, monitoring, and platform operations.
- Deploy and operate Splunk across on‑premises, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), GovCloud, and hybrid environments.
- Automate deployments and environment management using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
- Integrate Splunk with enterprise and security tooling, including endpoint, identity, cloud, and network telemetry sources.
- Monitor platform health, troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize Splunk environments for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture design sessions, best‑practice guidance, and implementation reviews.
- Create and maintain documentation including solution architectures, deployment patterns, runbooks, and handoff materials.
- Stay current with Splunk features, apps, and emerging observability and SIEM capabilities.
Salary Range: $140,000 - $190,000
Preferred Qualifications- Deep, hands‑on expertise with Splunk (Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud).
- Strong experience with SPL, data onboarding, indexer/search head architecture, and performance tuning.
- Solid understanding of SIEM, observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating production‑scale Splunk environments.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.).
- Experience working in customer-facing or professional services environments.
- Strong Linux/Unix, networking, and cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to support domestic or international on‑site engagements.
- U.S. Passport required.
- Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance.
Skills Required
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Splunk (Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud)
- Strong experience with SPL, data onboarding, indexer/search head architecture, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of SIEM, observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating production-scale Splunk environments
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.)
- Experience working in customer-facing or professional services environments
- Strong Linux/Unix, networking, and cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Willingness and ability to support domestic or international on-site engagements
- Must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
