Position: Sr. Splunk Observability & APM Integration Engineer/Architect
Location: Warren, NJ - 3 days a week on-site is a must
Duration: 6+Months Contract to Hire
Local Consultant Only
Job Description
Must have the following: Advanced Splunk Engineering, expert SPL, OpenTelemetry, APM and distributed tracing, Splunk APM/SignalFx, Dynatrace, synthetic monitoring, shell scripting, PowerShell, LogicMonitor, AutoSys, enterprise observability, logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerting, and dashboard development.
Requirements:
- Advanced Splunk administration experience with expert-level SPL skills.
- Strong background in log observability, operational monitoring design, and enterprise dashboard development.
- Hands-on APM, application instrumentation, and distributed tracing experience.
- Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including Collector, OTLP, telemetry pipelines, and instrumentation patterns.
- Experience with Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace, including synthetic monitoring capabilities.
- Strong shell scripting and PowerShell automation skills.
- Experience with LogicMonitor and AutoSys, or comparable monitoring and workload automation platforms.
- Solid understanding of logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerting, incident response, and modern observability practices.
- Ability to instrument difficult-to-monitor platforms and normalize telemetry into a unified observability framework.
- Strong application assessment skills, including identifying logging opportunities and translating findings into dashboards and monitoring strategies.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills with a collaborative approach to documentation and knowledge transfer.