Splunk Monitoring & Observability Architect

Job Role: Monitoring & Observability Architect (with focus on Splunk)

Location: Canada/USA- Remote

No of position: 1

Exp. Start date: 2 nd week of Aug

Year of Experience: 12-15 Years

Type: Fulltime only

Role overview: Design, implement, and operate scalable observability platforms to provide metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for cloud-native, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Observability pipelines and dashboards (metrics, logs, traces).
• Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; create actionable alerts.
• Instrument apps/infrastructure with OpenTelemetry and vendor SDKs.
• Integrate and operate tools (Splunk, PrometheGrafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic)
• Automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Collaborate with dev, SRE, and platform teams; produce runbooks and post-incident reports.

Required

• Hands-on with Splunk at least two monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic).
• Strong scripting/programming (Python, Go, or Bash).
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs/SLAs.
• Familiar with CI/CD and IaC; experience on AWS.

Preferred

• OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing experience.
• Service mesh telemetry (Istio/Linkerd).
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., FDA) and telemetry cost/retention optimization.

Soft skills

• Clear communicator, collaborative, proactive, and good at mentoring.