Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer in Columbia

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

Job Title: Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Position Description

Seeking an experienced Senior Splunk & Observability Engineer to support enterprise scale observability platforms within a complex, AWS based production environment. This is a senior hands on role combining advanced Splunk administration and engineering, AWS production support, observability, and automation.

The engineer will manage and support Splunk Enterprise running on AWS, working across the full data lifecycle from source onboarding and ingestion through indexing, search, dashboards, alerts, retention, and recovery.

Responsibilities include developing and optimizing SPL queries, troubleshooting ingestion and performance issues, improving platform stability, supporting upgrades and vulnerability remediation, and restoring or replaying data following service interruptions.

The role will also work extensively with AWS, Amazon CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and Python based automation to improve enterprise monitoring and resiliency.

The engineer will build and maintain OpenTelemetry agents and collectors, support observability integrations across technology stacks, and help automate platform operations and vulnerability remediation.

This position is required in one of the following locations: Lafayette, LA, Knoxville, TN, Columbia, SC, Birmingham, AL

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Administer, engineer, upgrade, and support Splunk Enterprise in AWS.
• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Splunk components hosted on Amazon EC2.
• Manage the end to end Splunk data lifecycle, including ingestion, indexing, search, dashboards, alerts, retention, and recovery.
• Develop and optimize complex SPL queries and troubleshoot query performance issues.
• Build and maintain enterprise dashboards for production monitoring, resiliency, incident response, and outage triage.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, problematic indexes, missing or delayed data, unexpected data volume growth, and platform availability issues.
• Restore data flow and replay data following ingestion or platform interruptions.
• Optimize data ingestion and retention to reduce noise, storage consumption, and operating costs.
• Integrate Splunk, Amazon CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry for logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Develop Python based automation for observability and platform operations.
• Build and maintain OpenTelemetry agent and collector packages across multiple technology platforms.
• Support Splunk upgrades, patching, configuration changes, plugins, and vulnerability remediation.
• Use GitLab, GitHub, Terraform Enterprise, JSON, and CI/CD tooling to support infrastructure, configuration, automation, and package deployments.
• Lead technical troubleshooting calls and coordinate incident investigation and remediation across multiple teams.
• Participate in an on call rotation and provide after hours support when required for production incidents, upgrades, and planned changes.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• 5+ years of hands on Splunk Enterprise administration and engineering experience in large production environments.
• Strong understanding of the Splunk ecosystem, including data ingestion, forwarders, indexers, search heads, indexes, dashboards, alerts, and recovery.
• Advanced SPL query development and performance optimization skills.
• Hands on experience deploying, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, and supporting Splunk on AWS.
• Strong AWS production experience, particularly with Amazon EC2, Application Load Balancer, and Amazon CloudWatch.
• Experience building complex Splunk dashboards for production monitoring, resiliency, incident triage, and operational use cases.
• Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, including agents, collectors, logs, metrics, instrumentation, and Splunk integration.
• Experience building or maintaining OpenTelemetry agent and collector packages.
• Working knowledge of Python for automation and operational tooling.
• Experience with GitLab, Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD, GitHub, and JSON.
• Strong production troubleshooting skills, including ingestion failures, data volume issues, platform outages, performance problems, and data recovery.
• Experience with platform upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, and controlled production changes.
• Ability to lead technical troubleshooting calls, communicate findings clearly, and coordinate effectively across cloud, application, security, database, and production support teams.

Educational Requirements:

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

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