Job Title: SPLUNK DASHBOARD DEVELOPER
Location: Reston VA
Duration: 6 Months
Visa: USC GC H1B and EAD
Contract Type: W2
Job Description:
We are seeking a seasoned Splunk Dashboard Developer with strong UI/UX sensibility and a deep understanding of telemetry and observability data to join our team in Reston VA. This is a fully onsite role and the selected candidate will play a critical role in designing and developing business-facing dashboards that transform complex telemetry data into intuitive actionable visual insights.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop highly interactive user-friendly dashboards using Splunk Dashboard Studio Splunk XML and JavaScript.
- Translate business and IT requirements into rich data visualizations popups and dashboard interactions.
- Utilize Splunk Query Language (SPL) and regular expressions to extract and visualize meaningful insights from a variety of logs and telemetry data.
- Build and enhance dashboards that serve both business and IT teams utilizing data sourced from OpenTelemetry traces logs and metrics.
- Understand and work with data in OTLP JSON XML formats to support visualizations related to SLA/SLO monitoring and business process health.
- Work independently as an individual contributor taking ownership of assigned dashboard development tasks.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to refine dashboard requirements and ensure usability performance and data accuracy.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Extensive hands-on experience in Splunk Dashboard development including Splunk Dashboard Studio and traditional XML-based dashboards.
- Strong front-end/UI development skills with a focus on interactivity and usability.
- Splunk certification (Admin Developer or any other recognized certification).
- Proficient in SPL regular expressions and data extraction from logs.
- Exposure to Java and Python for instrumentation and data integration.
- Solid understanding of AWS services particularly EC2 S3 Lambda and ECS.
- Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLA/SLO monitoring and persona-based dashboards.
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry OTLP data structures and telemetry data formats (logs metrics traces).
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently demonstrate initiative and contribute meaningfully to business goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience creating dashboards that are both technically sound and aligned with business usability needs.
- Understanding of performance metrics at both infrastructure and application levels.
- Prior experience developing dashboards for business stakeholders and IT operations teams alike.