Splunk Observability Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Splunk Observability Engineer to join our Toronto team on a contract basis. You will be responsible for administering and enhancing our Splunk Observability platform, ensuring reliable telemetry collection, and providing actionable insights for both infrastructure and applications.

Key responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Splunk Observability components, manage user access, integrations, and platform upgrades.
• Monitor infrastructure and application metrics in real time, create custom metrics, and establish performance baselines.
• Implement distributed tracing and analyze latency, errors, and bottlenecks to improve application reliability.
• Correlate logs, metrics, and traces for unified incident analysis and faster root‑cause identification.
• Design interactive dashboards for real‑time visibility into performance and business services.
• Configure intelligent alerts and anomaly detection, continuously optimizing thresholds.
• Support incident response by analyzing observability data and collaborating with cross‑functional teams.
• Integrate observability tools with CI/CD pipelines and IaC, automating monitoring deployment.
• Monitor cloud‑native environments (containers, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure) to ensure scalability and performance.
• Generate SLA/SLO reports and establish observability standards and governance.

Required profile

• Proven experience with Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk Enterprise.
• Strong background in application performance monitoring and metrics/dashboard development.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
• Solid Linux and Windows administration skills.

Required skills

• Splunk Observability Cloud
• Splunk Enterprise
• Application Performance Monitoring
• Metrics and Dashboard Development
• AWS
• Azure
• Linux Administration
• Windows Administration
• Splunk IT Service Intelligence (preferred)
• OpenTelemetry (preferred)
• Jenkins (preferred)