Senior Splunk Observability & APM Architect

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Warren Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Developers Inc. is seeking a senior Observability Architect/Engineer to design and build enterprise monitoring platforms using Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and APM.

You will integrate logs, metrics, and traces across Windows, Linux, and AIX, build alerting and synthetic monitoring, automate onboarding, and troubleshoot production issues. The six-month contract-to-hire opportunity requires hands-on expertise, a practical architecture mindset, and the ability to deliver a scalable observability

Qualifications

• Advanced Splunk administration with expert SPL.
• Experience with log observability and enterprise dashboard design.
• Hands-on APM, instrumentation, and distributed tracing experience.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry pipelines and instrumentation patterns.
• Experience with Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace, including synthetic monitoring.
• Shell scripting and PowerShell automation skills.
• Experience with LogicMonitor and AutoSys.
• Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerting, and incident response.
• Ability to instrument complex platforms and normalize telemetry into a unified observability framework.

Responsibilities

• Build Splunk dashboards and SPL-based views for single-pane monitoring.
• Integrate LogicMonitor, AutoSys, OpenTelemetry, and custom collectors into Splunk.
• Establish practical APM capabilities with distributed tracing via OpenTelemetry.
• Advise on buy-versus-build decisions for Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace.
• Design synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys with SLOs and alerting.
• Develop automation using shell scripting and PowerShell across Windows and Linux.
• Identify logging opportunities and translate findings into dashboards.
• Create architecture docs, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Develop telemetry solutions for legacy or unsupported platforms.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable monitoring outcomes.

Skills

Splunk Administration

OpenTelemetry

APM & Distributed Tracing

Splunk SPL

SRE / Observability

Shell Scripting

PowerShell

LogicMonitor

Dynatrace

Cribl

SLOs & Dashboards

PagerDuty

Windows/Linux/AIX

Tools

Splunk

Cribl

SignalFx

OpenTelemetry Collector

PagerDuty

LogicMonitor

AutoSys

Job description

Career Developers Inc. is seeking a senior Observability Architect/Engineer to design and build enterprise monitoring platforms using Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and APM.

You will integrate logs, metrics, and traces across Windows, Linux, and AIX, build alerting and synthetic monitoring, automate onboarding, and troubleshoot production issues. The six-month contract-to-hire opportunity requires hands-on expertise, a practical architecture mindset, and the ability to deliver a scalable observability