What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Splunk Administrator position at PRI Technology?
Looking for an Observability Engineer who has experience working in Splunk Administration, AppDynamics, OTEL, Zenoss platforms!
This role is open in either Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA (NON-LOCAL CANDIDATES WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REJECTED)
You are:
We are seeking a dedicated and detail oriented Senior Observability Engineer with expertise in Splunk, App Dynamics, Open Telemetry and Zenoss to join our Enterprise Observability Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the administration, configuration, and maintenance of our observability tools to ensure optimal performance and reliability of our IT systems.
You have:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5–7 years in Observability/Monitoring/Site reliability engineering with a focus on Splunk, AppDynamics and Zenoss.
- Proven experience in Implementing, Managing and Maintaining observability tools.
- Proficiency in Splunk and AppDynamics (including configuration, administration, and implementation).
- Proficiency in Zenoss (including setup, configuration, and maintenance).
- Strong in MELT, Metrics, Events, Logs and Traces; hands-on troubleshooting and support
- OpenTelemetry: instrumentation patterns, context propagation, collectors, sampling etc
- Maintain platform reliability, upgrades, patching, and security hardening
- Exposure to Kubernetes observability (cluster/workload metrics, events, service discovery)
- Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, and networking.
- Experience with scripting and automation tools (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure) is required.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
- Experience with other monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible) and Git-based workflows