Splunk Admin - Local to Reston, Virginia

Role: Splunk Admin

Location: Reston, VA - onsite 3 days per week

Project Duration: Through 1/23/2026

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated with a strong background in observability, telemetry, and monitoring to join our development team. In this role, you will be responsible for implementing, and maintaining observability solutions using OpenTelemetry (Otel) and Splunk, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement observability strategies using OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Instrument microservices written in Java and Python using Otel SDKs and auto-instrumentation tools.
• Develop and maintain Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports to provide actionable insights into system performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure consistent and effective telemetry across services.
• Automate monitoring and alerting pipelines to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortem analysis to improve system resilience.
• Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Continuously evaluate and improve observability tools and practices.

Required Qualifications

• Certifications: Splunk Certified Developer, Admin (At least one of them)
• 3+ years of experience in Splunk development (Create Dashboards, Visualizations, Statistical reports, scheduled searches, alerts, custom applications using Python and knowledge objects)
• Experience with both XML and dashboard studio development is a must
• Expert level knowledge and understanding of Splunk "Search" language and building complex queries
• Implement KV stores, lookups, and data model acceleration to optimize search performance and reporting
• Knowledge of how to customize Dashboards via the simple XML, advanced XML source, JavaScript, CSS, advanced HTML
• Expert-level capabilities with regular expression and statistical functions
• Experience with creating Splunk knowledge objects (field extractions, macros, event types, etc.)
• Strong problem solving, logic, and analytical skills
• Prior experience as web developer using Java, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, or other programming languages is a plus

Thanks & Regards, Azam Mohammed Contact: 551.. 264.. 7249 Email: Aazam (at) pullskill (dot) com