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Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.\nSPLUNK ENGINEER\nSpaceX is hiring a Splunk Engineer to help protect and drive the SpaceX mission. Our engineers are responsible for deploying, administrating and supporting a distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale. As a highly visible and dynamic organization, we must value and guard against damage to our internal information, our physical hardware, and our reputation and brand. It is paramount that we defend against loss of control or confidence in our systems, to guarantee the highest probability of success.\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\nDeploy, Admin and Support distributed Splunk environment at an enterprise scale.\nStandardize Splunk agent and enterprise deployment, configuration and management with automation.\nHelp monitor and maintain the logging platform's performance, availability, and capacity.\nWrite Complex SPLs to help Infosec and other IT organizations with their dashboards and alerts..\nTroubleshoot Splunk Instances and Splunk Universal Forwarder problems.\nData onboarding, governance, enrichment and fields extraction for various use cases.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS:\n2+ years of experience administering or implementing Splunk in a professional setting.\nExperience writing complex regex for field mappings and identifying patterns.\nExperience with Puppet, Ansible, or other automation frameworks.\nPREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:\nCertifications such as Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Splunk Enterprise Security Admin and Splunk Core Consultant.\nFamiliarity with integrating enterprise applications and on-boarding new log sources.\nFamiliarity with aerospace, satellite communications, launch vehicle, or factory-floor logging environments.\nKnowledge in the Common Information Model (CIM) with a strong understanding between the CIM and knowledge objects.\nExperience maintaining on-premises deployments of Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security by supporting hundreds of users.\nExperience in identifying visibility gaps for SOC detections and onboarding custom data sources into Splunk.\nExperience with System Administration, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.\nExperience developing or extending Splunk with Python (custom commands, modular inputs, alert actions, or apps) beyond basic SPL.\nKnowledge of Splunk SOAR (or equivalent security orchestration) and integrating Splunk with EDR, threat intel, or other security tools.\nExperience applying Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) or similar for anomaly detection in operational or security data.\nHands-on experience with Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices specifically for Splunk configurations and knowledge objects.\nAdvanced Linux systems knowledge for large-scale Splunk clusters.\nExperience supporting mission-critical, 24/7 operational environments with strict uptime and rapid incident response requirements.\nADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:\nMust be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.\nThis role requires you to be onsite. Hybrid or remote work will not be considered.\nCOMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:\nPay Range:\nLevel 1: $130,000.00 - $165,000.00\nLevel 2: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00\nYour actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.\nBase salary is just one part of your total rewards package at SpaceX. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock or long-term cash awards, as well as potential discretionary bonuses and the ability to purchase additional stock at a discount through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You will also receive access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid parental leave, and various other discounts and perks. You may also accrue 3 weeks of paid vacation and will be eligible for 10 or more paid holidays per year. Employees in Washington State accrue paid sick time in compliance with state and federal law. Company shuttles are offered to employees for roundtrip travel from select Seattle locations to the SpaceX Redmond office Monday to Friday.\nITAR REQUIREMENTS:\nTo conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .\nSpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.\nApplicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to  .","description_format":"text","description_chars":5492,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T20:59:25Z"}],"liveness":{"score":84,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.844,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:3","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T01:06:27Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":165000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/spacenexus-splunk-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/spacenexus-splunk-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:06:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1169,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3831,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}