Splunk & Splunk Observability Cloud Consultant
Summary
Hands-on consultant role administering Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Splunk Observability Cloud: migrating on-prem Splunk to Splunk Cloud, onboarding data, and expanding APM/OpenTelemetry monitoring across AWS workloads. Core tech: Splunk, SignalFx, OpenTelemetry, AWS (CloudWatch, X-Ray), Python/Bash.
We're looking for a hands-on consultant to support our Splunk Platform and Splunk Observability Cloud environments. The main work is migrating Splunk on-prem to Splunk Cloud and expanding APM and OpenTelemetry-based monitoring across AWS workloads.
● Administer Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud: data onboarding, forwarders, indexes, apps, dashboards and alerts.
● Support the migration of Splunk on-prem workloads to Splunk Cloud: app remediation, knowledge object migration, forwarder repointing and data validation.
● Configure Splunk Observability Cloud: APM, infrastructure monitoring, dashboards and detectors.
● Instrument applications with OpenTelemetry, and deploy and manage OpenTelemetry Collectors.
● Integrate AWS services (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail) with Splunk and Splunk Observability Cloud.
● Support observability for AI/GenAI workloads, including Amazon Bedrock and AI agents.
● Document configurations and runbooks, and support incident troubleshooting.
RequirementsRequired skills
● 3–5+ years of hands-on Splunk administration (SPL, data onboarding, props/transforms, dashboards).
● Experience migrating Splunk on-prem to Splunk Cloud.
● Hands-on experience with Splunk Observability Cloud (SignalFx) APM.
● Working knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including setting up Collectors.
● Experience with AWS, including CloudWatch and X-Ray.
● Scripting in Python or Bash.