Lead Splunk Engineer

About the role

Who we are.

Platinum Technologies is a Northern Virginia based integrated solutions firm that specializes in PaaS, Cybersecurity & AI Platform development for the Defense and Federal Sectors. Our team solves hard problems and helps our Mission Partners achieve their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products – we want to hear from you.

We lead with technical expertise, but that is just the tip of the iceberg – the ‘Why’ matters. At Platinum, we don’t hire people to just do a job. We provide professional and leadership development to complement our self-motivated domain experts. Our teammates are dot-connecting leaders that operate in a mutually accountable environment to deliver thought leadership, expert technical analysis, and quality execution for our clients.

You.

Platinum Technologies currently has an opportunity for an AIOps Engineer SME to lead the design, deployment, and management of AIOps solutions supporting mission-critical IT operations. This role will transform IT Service Management (ITSM) capabilities through predictive analytics, unified observability, and automated incident response. The engineer will serve as technical lead, coordinating with Network Engineering, ServiceNow, SolarWinds, and cybersecurity teams to strengthen the reliability and security of DoD networks and systems.

This role is located onsite in Fort Belvoir, VA or Albuquerque, NM.

Candidate must hold an active Secret clearance at the time of hire. U.S. citizenship is required.

What you get to do.

• Lead the AIOps initiative and coordinate Network Engineering, ServiceNow, and SolarWinds teams to establish unified telemetry pipelines.

• Architect closed-loop remediation workflows integrating Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) alerts with ServiceNow Event Management and Incident Management.

• Design and sustain Splunk AIOps solutions across classified and unclassified environments for real-time operational visibility.

• Normalize and correlate SolarWinds network performance and fault data with server and application logs to assess enterprise health.

• Build and tune machine learning models using Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) to identify anomalies, potential cyber threats, and infrastructure degradation.

• Engineer secure telemetry ingestion pipelines from cross-domain solutions and tactical edge devices.

• Use Splunk ITSI to correlate events, reduce alert noise, and prioritize high-impact mission incidents.

• Collaborate with the Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) to support defensive cyber operations (DCO).

• Ensure observability solutions comply with applicable DoD STIGs and IL5/IL6 requirements; maintain architecture documentation and compliance traceability.

• Evaluate evolving AIOps capabilities relevant to DoD, federal, and intelligence mission systems.