Telemetry AI/ML Engineer: Kafka, Splunk, AIOps

Valiant Technologies LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a senior Telemetry Architect to define and evolve our telemetry architecture, including SNMP traps, EMS/NMS integration, data models, and end-to-end data flows. You will build and maintain streaming pipelines with Kafka and time-series databases, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability.

The role requires crafting optimized Splunk/ELK queries, dashboards, alerts, and correlation logic for real-time insights, and leading production troubleshooting

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience with SNMP traps, polling, and EMS/NMS.
• Experience designing and evolving telemetry architectures and end-to-end data flows.
• Strong background in building streaming pipelines using Kafka and time-series databases.
• Proficient in writing optimized Splunk/ELK queries, dashboards, alerts, and correlation logic for real-time insights.
• Experience with NetScout nGeniusOne, including dashboard creation and ongoing support.
• Ability to onboard new services/verticals to NetScout.
• Proven production troubleshooting and collaboration with Operations/SRE teams.
• Strong knowledge of AIOps/MLOps concepts, including anomaly detection and auto-remediation.
• Proficient in SQL and working with time-series databases.
• Proficient in Python scripting and automation.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve telemetry architecture, including SNMP traps/polling, EMS/NMS integration, data models, and end-to-end data flows.
• Build and maintain streaming pipelines using Kafka and time-series databases, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability.
• Develop optimized Splunk/ELK queries, dashboards, alerts, and correlation logic for real-time insights.
• Lead production troubleshooting and collaborate with Operations/SRE teams on incident resolution and runbook improvements.
• Advance AIOps/MLOps use cases, including anomaly detection, noise reduction, and auto-remediation with measurable KPIs.

Skills

SNMP traps & polling

EMS/NMS architecture

Kafka streaming

Splunk/ELK queries

SQL

Time-series databases

Python scripting

AIOps/MLOps concepts

Incident troubleshooting

Telemetry & alerts translation

Data flows & telemetry

Tools

NetScout nGeniusOne

Kafka

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a senior Telemetry Architect to define and evolve our telemetry architecture, including SNMP traps, EMS/NMS integration, data models, and end-to-end data flows. You will build and maintain streaming pipelines with Kafka and time-series databases, ensuring data quality, performance, and reliability.

The role requires crafting optimized Splunk/ELK queries, dashboards, alerts, and correlation logic for real-time insights, and leading production troubleshooting