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Lead Observability Engineer

Lead Observability Engineer

InvestCloud, Inc.india, India
15 hours ago
Job description

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of the Splunk Enterprise platform, including indexer and search head clustering, forwarders, and knowledge objects.
  • Define and implement best practices for data onboarding, parsing, enrichment, and storage to support observability use cases.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams to build reliable, scalable observability solutions.
  • Develop advanced SPL searches, correlation rules, alerts, and performance dashboards.
  • Improve alert quality and reduce noise through smarter event correlation and visualization.
  • Drive observability maturity initiatives including logging standardization, automation, and self-service access to telemetry data.
  • Evaluate and integrate additional observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, LogicMonitor, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) to complement existing capabilities.
  • Lead troubleshooting and incident response efforts where visibility and telemetry data are required.
  • Mentor junior engineers and influence platform and observability architecture decisions.

Qualifications

  • 8–12 years of progressive experience in observability, infrastructure monitoring, or SRE roles.
  • Minimum 7 years of direct hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise at enterprise scale.
  • Deep knowledge of Splunk architecture, including clustering, ingestion pipelines, search performance tuning, and index lifecycle policies.
  • Advanced proficiency with SPL (Search Processing Language) and dashboarding.
  • Experience building and scaling log pipelines using technologies such as syslog, Fluentd, Logstash, Cribl, etc.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid infrastructure environments.
  • Experience working with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Excellent collaboration, problem-solving, and communication skills.

    • Must Have

  • Splunk certifications (e.g., Certified Architect, Consultant, or Admin).
  • Experience with APM and tracing tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, New Relic, etc.).
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