Cloud Observability Engineer

Cloud Observability Engineer needs 5+ years combined with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud

Cloud Observability Engineer requires:

• Understands Cloud Application Performance Monitoring & Observability.
• Locations; Iselin, NJ, Chicago, IL, NY, NY, Charlotte, NC
• Experience with Implementing Splunk Observability Suite or SignalFx
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise/ Splunk cloud
• Experience in integrating SignalFx and Splunk
• OpenTelemetry implementation or consulting experience
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring - cloud , containers - examples OpenShift, Kubernetes, AWS EKS
• Experience in metric-based onboarding along with Splunk Observability, like Telemetry data
• Knowledge of AWS platform including CloudWatch, Xray, S3, and CloudTrail
• Hands on Experience in supporting Splunk Operator on Container platforms like Kubernetes or OpenShift
• Ability to write regex to perform field extractions at search time.
• Experience writing Splunk Enterprise / Splunk Cloud queries to create complex Splunk dashboard to detect and illustrate capacity trends, constraints, and risks
• Familiarity with Regex, shell scripting, Ansible, Python, REST or API Calls, GIT, JSON, XML, web technologies
• Hands-on support of Windows, Linux in large, enterprise environment
• Superior communication and presentation skills

Industry experience

• 5+ years combined with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud
• 2+ years in SignalFX
• 2+ years in OpenTelemetry
• 3+ years with UNIX / Windows Engineering
• 2+ years with scripting (python, shell, Ansible)
• 2+ years in integration of web technologies (SDKs, REST, JSON, XML, etc.)
• 2+ years designing/supporting platforms with multi-site and/or highly available designs

Nice to have experience

• Splunk training and/or certifications in power user/administration - a major plus
• AWS practitioner certifications - a plus
• Exposure to BigFix, Java programming - a plus
• Familiarity with Ansible
• Exposure to Moogosft, Dynatrace, Cribl, Datadog - a valued plus
• Analytical skills

Cloud Observability Engineer duties:

• Establish, enhance a data driven observability IT platform for full-fidelity real-time monitoring of infrastructure , applications, microservices, containers and user interfaces.
• Detect errors, latencies, anomalies, performance degradations, problems before users and customers are impacted
• Map problems, errors in applications, microservices to owners of these apps, services
• Establish a continuous /automated process to use application logs, traces and metrics to detect and report service performance issues
• Partnering with other cross-functional teams for issue identification and driving them to resolution utilizing Splunk and other monitoring platforms
• Work closely with UNIX, Linux, and Windows server administration teams to diagnose and resolve configuration issues
• Training/User Support for Splunk platform and other monitoring components
• Use collaboration tools to organize, collaborate, document , share knowledge of work

Remote Work :

No