Data Engineer 4

Job Description

Job Description

Data Engineer 4

5+ Month W2 Contract

San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

Here's how you'll 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.

Here’s how you’ll 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.

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful in this role :

Pay Range :

$90.00 - $99.13 / hour

Benefits That Matter to You :

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