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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer - **Company:** DTEL Engineering & Consultants Inc - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Batch Processing, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Middleware, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Log Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Datadog, Google Cloud, Cloud Monitoring, Grafana, Software Troubleshooting, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Cloudwatch, Splunk, Appdynamics, Dynatrace - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/9f77f008-61d8-4b98-a0fb-2eef94358286 ## About the Role * Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and/or Splunk Cloud. * Expertise in SPL, dashboards, alerts, reports, and log analytics. * Experience in monitoring optimization, alert tuning, and alert rationalization. * Strong troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) skills. * Understanding of observability principles: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events. * Experience monitoring applications, APIs, databases, and infrastructure. * Knowledge of cloud monitoring across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. * Automation/scripting experience using Python, Shell, or similar technologies. Preferred Skills Splunk ITSI, Splunk Observability Cloud, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, Kubernetes, AWS CloudWatch, CI/CD, Ansible, and AIOps. Expected Outcome The candidate should act not only as a Splunk Monitoring Engineer, but as a Monitoring & Observability SME who can: Assess Identify Gaps Optimize Rationalize Propose Observability Improvements Implement Continuous Improvements ## Description We are seeking an experienced Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Splunk monitoring. The role will focus on reviewing and enhancing the existing monitoring landscape, optimizing Splunk usage and alerting, identifying monitoring gaps, and proposing modern observability techniques to improve proactive detection, troubleshooting, and end-to-end service visibility., * Design, develop, and enhance monitoring solutions using Splunk Enterprise/Splunk Cloud. * Develop and optimize SPL queries, dashboards, reports, alerts, and correlation rules. * Monitor applications, infrastructure, databases, APIs, middleware, and batch processes. * Review the current monitoring environment and identify gaps, duplicate/noisy alerts, ineffective thresholds, and performance issues. * Propose and implement monitoring optimization and alert rationalization initiatives. * Analyze incidents and production issues to support troubleshooting and root cause analysis. * Assess observability maturity across Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Events. * Propose modern observability techniques such as distributed tracing, service health monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and proactive monitoring. * Enable end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and dependent services. * Identify opportunities for automation, monitoring-as-code, AIOps, and proactive/self-healing capabilities. * Collaborate with Application, Infrastructure, Cloud, SRE, DevOps, and Operations teams. ## Related Videos - [All your telemetry data from any source in one place](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/57-all-your-telemetry-data-from-any-source-in-one-place) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Easy Mode Monitoring and Logging with Shiftmon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2114-easy-mode-monitoring-and-logging-with-shiftmon) - [Keycloak case study: Making users happy with service level indicators and observability](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1599-keycloak-case-study-making-users-happy-with-service-level-indicators-and-observability) ## Related Articles - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 162: AI careers, MCP, AWS best practices & floppy sweaters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/571-dev-digest-162-ai-careers-mcp-aws-best-practices-floppy-sweaters) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)