Sr. Splunk Engineer-KSA

• Job Summary:

  The Senior Splunk Engineer will be responsible for the design implementation administration and optimization of Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud within a large-scale enterprise or managed services environment. The engineer will support log onboarding correlation rule development dashboard creation and performance tuning ensuring the Splunk platform delivers accurate actionable insights for security operations and compliance monitoring.

  Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement end-to-end Splunk solutions including data ingestion parsing indexing and search optimization.
• Develop and maintain custom correlation rules alerts dashboards and visualizations to support security monitoring and incident response.
• Onboard new log sources from infrastructure security application and cloud systems using best practices (e.g. via UF HF syslog APIs).
• Perform regular health checks indexer and search head performance tuning license usage monitoring and configuration backups.
• Support threat detection initiatives by translating security use cases into actionable Splunk queries and alerts.
• Assist in troubleshooting ingestion failures parsing errors and inefficient searches.
• Collaborate with SOC threat intelligence and infrastructure teams to ensure data relevance completeness and quality.
• Maintain Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) configurations including CIM compliance notables and risk-based alerting (RBA).
• Implement and manage data retention policies and storage utilization in line with compliance requirements.
• Automate tasks and processes using scripts (Python Bash PowerShell) and configuration management tools where needed.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior Splunk engineers and analysts.

Qualifications :

• Required Skills & Experience:

• 5 years of hands-on experience in SIEM engineering with at least 3 years focused on Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.
• Proficient in SPL (Search Processing Language) data onboarding and CIM normalization.
• Experience integrating diverse log sources including firewalls endpoints cloud (AWS Azure) identity systems and threat intel feeds.
• Strong understanding of security operations detection engineering and incident response workflows.
• Familiarity with Splunk ES UBA ITSI and SOAR (preferred but not mandatory).
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python Bash PowerShell).
• Good knowledge of networking security protocols and system administration (Windows/Linux).
• Exposure to regulatory and compliance requirements such as ISO 27001 NCA SAMA PCI-DSS etc.

• Preferred Certifications:

• Splunk Core Certified Power User Required
• Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin Preferred
• Splunk Certified Architect or Consultant Highly Desirable
• CompTIA Security CISSP or equivalent Advantageous

Additional Information :

Job Location: KSA

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time