Observability (Splunk Observability Cloud) Engineer

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Observability Engineer to support a strategic

observability platform migration initiative.

This role will be responsible for playing a core part in executing the migration of observability artifacts: SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and

monitoring workflows from Honeycomb to Splunk Observability Cloud.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with robust communication and

collaboration skills and has hands-on experience designing, implementing, and

operating modern observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and

Splunk Observability Cloud.

This is a contract position with an anticipated duration of 12 months, beginning as

soon as possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the migration of observability assets and telemetry workflows from

Honeycomb to Splunk Observability Cloud.

• Assess, document, and translate existing dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and other

monitoring configurations.

• Design and implement observability solutions utilizing OpenTelemetry standards

and best practices.

• Partner with enterprise engineering, SRE, and platform teams to validate

telemetry quality, monitoring coverage, and operational readiness.

• Identify opportunities to improve observability maturity, reliability, and operational

efficiency during the migration.

• Develop documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and migration playbooks.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical

and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Robust technical, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability

Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Hands-on experience with Splunk Observability Cloud, including dashboards,

detectors, APM, infrastructure monitoring, and related capabilities.

• Hands-on experience with Honeycomb, including telemetry analysis,

dashboards, and operational workflows.

• Experience implementing and supporting OpenTelemetry instrumentation,

collection, and telemetry pipelines.

• Experience working with distributed systems, cloud-native applications, APIs,

and microservices environments.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership

teams.

• Experience documenting technical solutions and communicating complex
• concepts to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or participating in enterprise-scale observability platform

migrations.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring, tracing, logging, and metrics best practices.
• Experience supporting production environments with high availability and

reliability requirements.

Success Measures

• The successful candidate will help ensure a seamless migration from Honeycomb ton Splunk Observability Cloud while maintaining observability coverage, improving telemetry quality, and enabling engineering teams to effectively monitor and support production systems.
• This role offers an opportunity to drive a highly visible observability transformation initiative and help establish the foundation for future reliability and operational excellence efforts.