Data Engineer 4

San Jose, CA - USA

Hourly Salary: USD 79 - 99

Posted on: 23-08-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Data Engineer 4
5 Month W2 Contract
San Jose CA (Hybrid)

Heres how youll become a key player with this opportunity:

We are looking for a Splunk expert to join on a short-term contract and help stabilize optimize and improve our Splunk environment. This role will focus on search performance integrations usability and data governance practices to ensure Splunk supports security compliance and analytics needs effectively.

Heres how youll make an impact on the team:

Improve speed and efficiency of searches across large datasets.
Implement caching tuning and best practices to reduce redundant or costly searches.
Enhance workflows so analysts can pivot and re-use results without re-running full searches.
Strengthen reliability of Splunk data pipelines for exports and integrations.
Support real-time or near real-time data flows where feasible.
Improve stability and resiliency of indexing clustering and correlation searches.
Review and rationalize knowledge objects (saved searches lookups dashboards).
Establish monitoring for field drift or schema changes that impact detections.
Define lightweight governance processes for detection lifecycle management versioning and validation.
Support alignment with broader data governance policies including access controls retention and auditability.
Explore and implement notebook-style investigation support for collaboration and reproducibility.
Assist in enabling inline data transformation and ML/AI-driven enhancements where practical.
Provide guidance on best practices for detection-as-code and integration with CI/CD systems.

Heres what youll need to be successful in this role:

Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise / Enterprise Security administration and development.
Expertise in SPL optimization indexing and performance tuning.
Experience with data integration and pipeline reliability.
Familiarity with data governance practices as applied to Splunk (knowledge object hygiene schema evolution access/retention policies).
Proficiency in Python or scripting for automation and advanced -to-Have
Experience with detection engineering and detection-as-code frameworks.
Background in ML/AI features in Splunk or adjacent tools.
Understanding of compliance frameworks and their implications for Splunk governance.

Pay Range:

$90.00 - $99.13/hour

Benefits That Matter to You:

NextDeavor offers health vision and dental benefits for contract employees
Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)

Ready to take the next step Apply today and be part of a team that transforms businesses and fuels growth!

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Data Engineer 45 Month W2 ContractSan Jose CA (Hybrid)Heres how youll become a key player with this opportunity:We are looking for a Splunk expert to join on a short-term contract and help stabilize optimize and improve our Splunk environment. This role will focus on search performance integrations ...

Data Engineer 4
5 Month W2 Contract
San Jose CA (Hybrid)

Heres how youll become a key player with this opportunity:

Heres how youll make an impact on the team:

Improve speed and efficiency of searches across large datasets.
Implement caching tuning and best practices to reduce redundant or costly searches.
Enhance workflows so analysts can pivot and re-use results without re-running full searches.
Strengthen reliability of Splunk data pipelines for exports and integrations.
Support real-time or near real-time data flows where feasible.
Improve stability and resiliency of indexing clustering and correlation searches.
Review and rationalize knowledge objects (saved searches lookups dashboards).
Establish monitoring for field drift or schema changes that impact detections.
Define lightweight governance processes for detection lifecycle management versioning and validation.
Support alignment with broader data governance policies including access controls retention and auditability.
Explore and implement notebook-style investigation support for collaboration and reproducibility.
Assist in enabling inline data transformation and ML/AI-driven enhancements where practical.
Provide guidance on best practices for detection-as-code and integration with CI/CD systems.

Heres what youll need to be successful in this role:

Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise / Enterprise Security administration and development.
Expertise in SPL optimization indexing and performance tuning.
Experience with data integration and pipeline reliability.
Familiarity with data governance practices as applied to Splunk (knowledge object hygiene schema evolution access/retention policies).
Proficiency in Python or scripting for automation and advanced -to-Have
Experience with detection engineering and detection-as-code frameworks.
Background in ML/AI features in Splunk or adjacent tools.
Understanding of compliance frameworks and their implications for Splunk governance.

Pay Range:

$90.00 - $99.13/hour

Benefits That Matter to You:

NextDeavor offers health vision and dental benefits for contract employees
Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)

Ready to take the next step Apply today and be part of a team that transforms businesses and fuels growth!

Apply with Pioneers here <

Key Skills

Apache Hive
S3
Hadoop
Redshift
Spark
AWS
Apache Pig
NoSQL
Big Data
Data Warehouse
Kafka
Scala

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