Splunk Observability Engineer

Singapore (Singapore)

Splunk Observability Engineer

Job discription

• Design, implement, and manage full-stack observability with Splunk APM, Infrastructure, and RUM.
• Develop and maintain custom dashboards and alerts for proactive issue identification.
• Onboard and instrument applications and infrastructure to generate telemetry data (metrics, traces, logs).
• Troubleshoot complex performance issues by analyzing traces, metrics, and log correlations.
• Automate deployment and configuration of the Splunk Observability suite.
• Collaborate with development and SRE teams to improve system reliability and performance.
• Create and optimize Splunk Observability Queries (O11yQL) for advanced data analysis.
• Manage and fine-tuning alerting thresholds to reduce noise and improve Mean Time to Detection (MTTD).

Skills Required

• Strong expertise in Full-Stack Observability, with hands-on experience in Splunk Observability Cloud, including APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, RUM, and Log Observer.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and manage end-to-end observability solutions, including dashboards, alerts, and telemetry pipelines.
• Solid experience in instrumenting applications and infrastructure to generate and export metrics, logs, and distributed traces (using OpenTelemetry or similar frameworks).
• Advanced skills in troubleshooting performance issues, with the ability to analyze APM traces, system metrics, log correlations, and dependency maps.
• Experience developing and optimizing custom dashboards, alerting rules, service maps, and other observability artifacts for proactive monitoring.
• Proficiency in O11yQL (Splunk Observability Query Language) to perform deep data analysis and build advanced insights.
• Strong automation skills using IaC tools (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD pipelines, or scripting (Python, Bash) to deploy and configure Splunk Observability components.
• Experience collaborating with Software Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to enhance system reliability, performance, and operational visibility.
• Ability to fine-tune alert thresholds, implement good alert hygiene, and improve MTTD and overall incident response effectiveness.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across complex distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker) is a strong plus.
• Good communication skills with the ability to explain technical insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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