Splunk Systems Engineer - Hybrid#26-10984

Richmond, VA

Pennington, NJ

Charlotte, NC

Hybrid

Contract

Starts 12/28/2026

Ends 12/28/2027

Job Description

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Splunk Systems Engineer for a hybrid position with a Global Financial Institution located in Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC or Pennington, NJ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The engineer will act as a trusted platform owner, ensuring Splunk availability, scalability, and reliability while partnering closely with Information Security, SOC, architecture, engineering, and operations teams. This role will own end-to-end production support for a highly distributed Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environment.

Responsibilities:

Own end-to-end production support for a highly distributed Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environment, including search head clusters, indexer clusters, deployers, deployment servers, and forwarders

Ensure high availability, performance, and resiliency of the Splunk platform supporting security and operational use cases

Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and service restoration for Splunk and Cribl platforms

Proactively identify risks, capacity constraints, and performance bottlenecks; implement preventive and tuning measures

Serve as a key technical enabler for Information Security and SOC teams, ensuring timely, accurate, and reliable ingestion of security logs

Onboard and normalize new data sources, supporting CIMpliance, field normalization, and SIEM best practices

Tune ingestion pipelines using props.conf and transforms.conf, index-time and search-time optimizations

Build and support dashboards, searches, and alerts that enable threat detection, investigations, and reporting

Administer and support the Cribl environment for data routing, filtering, enrichment, and cost optimization

Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, installation guides, and operational documentation

Ad to change management, incident management, and SLAmitments using ITSM tools

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering large-scale Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud environments
• Strong expertise in: Indexer clustering and search head clustering, Universal and heavy forwarder architectures, SmartStore / S3patible object storage, SPL, search optimization, summary indexing, and data model acceleration
• Deep experience with security log ingestion and SIEM use cases
• Proven ability to lead production incidents, perform RCA, and drive preventive solutions
• Strong Linux administration skills and experience managing Splunk configuration and apps
• Experience working in 24x7 production environments with high availability expectations
• Excellent written and verbalmunication skills, with the ability to engage senior technical and business stakeholders
• Hybrid work model: 4 days onsite for the first 6 months, then 3 days onsite after 6 months

Desired skills:

A production owner's mindset with deep technical credibility in Splunk and data pipelines

Splunk certifications such as Enterprise Admin or Enterprise Architect

Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and SOAR (Phantom or equivalent)

Exposure to cloud logging and security architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server administration

Experience with monitoring, APM, and event management tools

Strong understanding of security, network, system, and database operations

Pay range: $60.24 - $68.24 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please !

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.

The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.

Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)

Behavioral Health Platform

Medical, Dental, Vision

Health Savings Account

Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)

Voluntary Term Life Insurance

401K

Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)

Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.