Title: Splunk Architect Lead
Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility, ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD, active BI strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required
Location: Reston, VA - Hybrid 3-5 days
Salary Range: $175,000-225,000
Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.
Required Certification(s): One of the following: Active Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Active Certified Information Security System Professional(CISSP).
SUMMARYAgile Defense is seeking a Splunk Architect/Lead to support enterprise cybersecurity programs delivering 24/7/365 Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) services of USG customers. The Splunk Lead will provide expert technical leadership for enterprise-scale logging, monitoring, SIEM engineering, and custom log integration. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and modernization of the enterprise logging ecosystems across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESLead 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.
QUALIFICATIONSRequired Certifications
- Active Certified Splunk Architect (II)
Minimum required experience
- Last 5 years of experience serving as a senior Certified Splunk Administrator or Architect in large environment.An understanding and practical experience in applying project management principles; experience with diverse interconnected systems; strong understanding of industry best practices and technologies with experience in the application supporting a large Federal Government security operations organization
- Experience in an enterprise IT environment as an applications or systems administrator working in Windows and Linux environments
- Experience with bash, python and or PowerShell scripting languages and automation; strong networking background; strong security background; experience with cloud orchestration tools and a strong understanding of Amazon Web Services cloud services
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, Cybersecurity, STEM or related field.
Preferred Skills
- Splunk Certified Admin/Engineer
- Splunk Core Certified Consultant
- Active Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)
- Cloud provider certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, etc)
- Experience using cribl
