Senior Splunk Observability & APM Architect

Intone Networks Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Intone Networks Inc. is seeking a Senior Splunk Observability & APM Integration Engineer/Architect to build an enterprise monitoring framework from the ground up in Warren, NJ. You will centralize Splunk as the analytics platform while integrating telemetry across tools, data, and processes.

The role requires hands-on implementation of APM, distributed tracing, and modern observability practices, with collaboration across engineering and operations to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Advanced Splunk administration experience with expert-level SPL skills.
• Strong background in log observability, operational monitoring design, and enterprise dashboard development.
• Hands-on APM, application instrumentation, and distributed tracing experience.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry, including Collector, OTLP, telemetry pipelines, and instrumentation patterns.
• Experience with Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace, including synthetic monitoring capabilities.
• Strong shell scripting and PowerShell automation skills.
• Experience with LogicMonitor and AutoSys, or comparable monitoring and workload automation platforms.
• Solid understanding of logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerting, incident response, and modern observability practices.
• Ability to instrument difficult-to-monitor platforms and normalize telemetry into a unified observability framework.
• Strong application assessment skills, including identifying logging opportunities and translating findings into dashboards and monitoring strategies.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills with a collaborative approach to documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, infrastructure, operations, and support stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build Splunk dashboards, correlation searches, and SPL-based views.
• Integrate LogicMonitor, AutoSys, OpenTelemetry, and custom data collectors into Splunk.
• Establish APM capabilities, including distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry-first approach.
• Advise buy-versus-build decisions across Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace.
• Design synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys, including SLOs and alerting.
• Develop automation using shell scripting and PowerShell across Windows and Linux.
• Identify logging opportunities and translate findings into dashboards and monitoring strategies.
• Create tactical dashboards for immediate visibility and strategic dashboards for incident response.
• Produce architecture docs, implementation patterns, and runbooks.
• Develop telemetry solutions for legacy or custom platforms.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable monitoring outcomes.

Skills

Splunk SPL

Log observability

APM & distributed tracing

OpenTelemetry

Automation scripting

PowerShell

Shell scripting

OpenTelemetry ecosystem

Structured dashboards

Communication & collaboration

Tools

LogicMonitor

AutoSys

Dynatrace

SignalFx

PagerDuty

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

Intone Networks Inc. is seeking a Senior Splunk Observability & APM Integration Engineer/Architect to build an enterprise monitoring framework from the ground up in Warren, NJ. You will centralize Splunk as the analytics platform while integrating telemetry across tools, data, and processes.

The role requires hands-on implementation of APM, distributed tracing, and modern observability practices, with collaboration across engineering and operations to deliver measurable outcomes.