Key Skills: Observability, Performance engineering, Splunk architect,
Splunk administration
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement observability solutions to capture, analyze, and visualize application telemetry.
- Drive performance engineering initiatives and define measurable performance indicators.
- Design Splunk-based observability architecture including ingestion pipelines and indexing strategies.
- Establish monitoring and alerting mechanisms to enable proactive incident detection and response.
- Collaborate with teams to integrate observability into application and platform development workflows.
- Support troubleshooting and root cause analysis using observability data.
- (Nice-to-have) Manage Splunk administration activities to ensure platform stability and performance.
- Continuously enhance observability coverage and improve monitoring effectiveness.
Skills Required:
- Strong experience in observability practices including metrics, logs, and traces for distributed systems.
- Proven expertise in performance engineering, including defining performance benchmarks and optimization strategies.
- Experience in designing and implementing observability solutions for enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of Splunk architecture including data ingestion, indexing, and monitoring strategies.
- Ability to design scalable monitoring and alerting systems for proactive issue detection.
- Experience in correlating telemetry data to support root cause analysis and incident resolution.
- Familiarity with application performance monitoring (APM) tools and practices.
- Understanding of cloud and microservices-based architectures for observability integration.
- Ability to collaborate with engineering and operations teams to embed observability into workflows.
- Knowledge of troubleshooting and diagnostics in complex distributed environments.
- (Nice-to-have) Experience in Splunk administration including configuration and platform maintenance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good communication skills for stakeholder collaboration and reporting.
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred).
