Splunk & Splunk Observability Cloud Consultant

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

●      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.

Requirements

Required 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.

Experience in Cribl is plus.