We have an outstanding Contract position for a Splunk Architect to join a leading Company located in the Doral, FL surrounding area.
**US Citizenship is required.****Candidate must possess an Active Secret Security Clearance.**
Responsibilities:Ability to fulfill Splunk admin role as well as architect Fully design and architect a Splunk enterprise environment Experience with multi-site clustering Architecture and deployment Experience designing multi-site clustering Experience and knowledge of Splunk-validated designs Experience with large Splunk deployments 30+TB Experience with on-prem and cloud architectures Experience with ingest vs SVC vs forecasting (predictive) licensing Understanding SVC cloud models Firm understanding of search, indexer, and forwarding tiers Working knowledge of smartstore vs traditional frameworks Working knowledge of architecting Splunk for performance Understanding Splunk cloud SaaS vs hybrid models Experience with maximizing traffic flows to Splunk on-prem and cloud Ability to create custom parsers Working knowledge of Splunk knowledge objects Ability to deploy HA for Cluster Managers and indexer clusters Ability to deploy HA for Deployment Servers Experience with Search head clustering Understanding of site0 Understanding of search affinity Understanding of cluster management Understanding of SF/RF, single and multisite Ability to follow through on projects 
Basic Hiring Criteria: Minimum 8 years experience with deploying large enterprise Splunk architectures Experience with planning large Splunk deployments Experience with documenting large Splunk deployments Experience with designing and architecting large Splunk deployments Good oral and written skills Good presentation skills 
Desired Qualifications: ES and ITSI experience Scripting experience Large enterprise deployments Willing to travel Willing to work on a team Leadership and extreme ownership skills when taking on a project Documentation and capacity planning skills Splunk architect certification Security background Understanding of cloud computing concepts Understanding of observability