Senior Observability Engineer: Splunk & SignalFx Specialist

Nextiya LLC; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Fairfax, VA is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to architect and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Observability Cloud for large-scale environments.

You will build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry, SignalFx agents, and Splunk forwarders, and instrument cloud-native apps to capture traces, metrics, and logs.

Collaborate with SRE and development teams to define SLIs/SLOs, share best practices, and keep the monitoring stack secure and well documented.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in platform observability, SRE, or DevOps.
• Proven architecture experience for large-scale enterprise systems with Splunk/Splunk Observability.
• Hands-on with Splunk Cloud/Enterprise and SignalFx.
• OpenTelemetry familiarity and configuring OTel Collectors.
• Cloud & container experience: AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker.
• IaC with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Strong IT infra background incl. Linux/Windows, networks.
• Scripting: Python, Bash; Git for version control.
• Understanding of microservices, REST, and load balancing.
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases.
• CI/CD, Kubernetes, configuration management, security hardening.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Observability Cloud environments.
• Build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry Collector, SignalFx agents, and Splunk forwarders.
• Design dashboards, real-time charts, and alerting to reduce alert fatigue.
• Instrument microservices to capture traces, metrics, and logs for end-to-end visibility.
• Collaborate with SRE/Dev teams to define SLIs/SLOs and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Document architecture, configurations, and troubleshooting per SDLC and security standards.

Skills

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Cross-functional communication

Requirements analysis

Tools

Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Observability Cloud

SignalFx

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Git

Jenkins

SQL/NoSQL databases

Job description

Zohorecruit in Fairfax, VA is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to architect and optimize Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Observability Cloud for large-scale environments.

You will build telemetry pipelines with OpenTelemetry, SignalFx agents, and Splunk forwarders, and instrument cloud-native apps to capture traces, metrics, and logs.

Collaborate with SRE and development teams to define SLIs/SLOs, share best practices, and keep the monitoring stack secure and well documented.