Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer (AWS + OpenTelemetry)

Energy Jobline ZR; Columbia Township (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR seeks a Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer to run enterprise scale observability in an AWS-based production environment. You will own Splunk Enterprise, OpenTelemetry, and Python automation to improve monitoring, resiliency, and uptime.

You will work across data onboarding, indexing, dashboards, alerts, and recovery, developing SPL queries and maintaining integrations with AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry for logs and metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on Splunk Enterprise administration in large production environments.
• Strong AWS production experience with EC2, ALB, CloudWatch.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry integration and dashboards.
• Proficient in Python for automation and tooling.
• Familiar with CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub) and Terraform Enterprise.
• Ability to troubleshoot ingestion, indexing, and data recovery in production.

Responsibilities

• Administer, engineer, upgrade, and support Splunk Enterprise in AWS.
• Deploy and troubleshoot Splunk components on Amazon EC2.
• Manage end-to-end Splunk data lifecycle: ingestion, indexing, search, dashboards, alerts, retention, and recovery.
• Develop and optimize complex SPL queries and performance.
• Build enterprise dashboards for production monitoring and incident triage.
• Integrate Splunk with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry for logs and metrics.
• Develop Python automation for observability and platform operations.
• Lead incident investigations and cross-team coordination.
• Support Splunk upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation.

Skills

Splunk administration

AWS production experience

Python automation

OpenTelemetry

SPL query development

Terraform Enterprise

CI/CD tooling

Linux/AWS EC2

Incident management

Monitoring & dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Splunk Enterprise on AWS

GitLab/GitHub

JSON

OpenTelemetry agents/collectors

Job description

Energy Jobline ZR seeks a Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer to run enterprise scale observability in an AWS-based production environment. You will own Splunk Enterprise, OpenTelemetry, and Python automation to improve monitoring, resiliency, and uptime.

You will work across data onboarding, indexing, dashboards, alerts, and recovery, developing SPL queries and maintaining integrations with AWS CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry for logs and metrics.