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Senior Engineer
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Description
Job Description: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Splunk Engineer to lead the design, operation, and evolution of our large-scale Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud deployment. The platform ingests multi-terabyte daily data volumes across security, infrastructure, and application domains and is a critical component of our SOC and threat-detection capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in Splunk architecture, large-scale data onboarding, performance optimization, SmartStore/Indexer Clustering, and security-focused use cases.
Key Responsibilities
Architect, operate, and optimize a distributed, large-scale Splunk environment (indexer clusters, search head clusters, cluster masters, deployment servers, IDM, ADFS/SAML integrations)
Lead capacity planning, index design, data retention strategies, and SmartStore lifecycle management
Maintain high availability, scaling, and resilience across multi-site deployments (including DR strategy)
Drive Splunk version upgrades, app updates, cluster maintenance, and platform hardening
Security Logging & SOC Enablement
Collaborate with SOC, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting teams to ensure high-quality security log ingestion
Onboard and normalize logs from firewalls, EDR, identity platforms, cloud providers, network telemetry, and custom applications
Develop and optimize detection content: correlation searches, risk-based alerting, data models, macros, lookups, summaries
Ensure compliance with logging standards (MITRE ATT&CK mapping, CIS/SOC2/ISO27001 logging requirements)
Data Engineering & Observability
Build and manage ingestion pipelines, parsing, field extractions, CIM compliance, HEC configurations, and forwarder architecture
Implement data lifecycle tiers, filtering strategies, routing, and ingestion controls to reduce cost and improve efficiency
Optimize search performance, knowledge objects, summary indexing, and acceleration strategies
Governance & Best Practices
Establish Splunk development standards, dashboards, and naming conventions
Mentor junior engineers and act as a technical escalation point for the team
Maintain documentation, operational runbooks, and logging onboarding guidelines
Partner with Engineering, Cloud, SecOps, and App teams to drive company-wide observability maturity
Required Qualifications
5+ years experience administering large Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud environments
Strong Hands-on Knowledge Of
Indexer clustering, search head clustering
SmartStore / S3-compatible object store design
Universal/heavy forwarder architecture
Ingest actions, parsing, props/transforms
KVStore, RBAC, SAML, encryption
Deep experience with security log ingestion and SIEM use cases
Strong SPL Expertise, Including
Search optimization
Summary indexing / data model acceleration
CIM mapping and field normalization
Experience with Linux systems engineering, scripting (Python/Bash), and automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
Splunk certifications (Core Consultant, Enterprise Admin, Enterprise Architect, ES Analyst/ES Admin, or equivalent)
Experience With
Enterprise Security (ES)
SOAR (Phantom or comparable)
AWS/Azure/GCP cloud logging architectures
Familiarity with high-throughput message brokers (Kafka/FluentD/Cribl)
Background in cybersecurity engineering or threat detection
Skills
Automation
Influence
Result Orientation
Stakeholder Management
Technical Strategy Development
Application Development
Architecture
Business Acumen
Risk Management
Solution Design
Agile Practices
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Data Management
Solution Delivery Process
Shift
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week
40
Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101), US - NJ - Pennington - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)
Pay range
$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
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Worksite address
charlotte, NC, 28245, US
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