Job Role: Monitoring & Observability Architect (with focus on Splunk)
Location: Canada/USA- Remote
Role overview: Design, implement, and operate scalable observability platforms to provide metrics, logs, traces, and alerts for cloud-native, distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
- · Build and maintain Observability pipelines and dashboards (metrics, logs, traces).
- · Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs; create actionable alerts.
- · Instrument apps/infrastructure with OpenTelemetry and vendor SDKs.
- · Integrate and operate tools (Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Current Relic)
- · Automate deployments with CI/CD and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
- · Collaborate with dev, SRE, and platform teams; produce runbooks and post-incident reports.
Required:
- · Hands-on with Splunk at least two monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic).
- · Strong scripting/programming (Python, Go, or Bash).
- · Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, and distributed systems.
- · Experience defining SLOs/SLIs/SLAs.
- · Familiar with CI/CD and IaC; experience on AWS.