Lead II - DevOps Engineering

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services

Position: Lead II - DevOps Engineering

Location: Atlanta, GA 30346

Duration: 9 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description

• We are looking for a highly skilled Splunk Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Enterprise Monitoring Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our monitoring and observability ecosystem.
• The ideal candidate will be an expert in Splunk, with a strong background in enterprise IT infrastructure, system performance monitoring, and log analytics.
• You will play a pivotal role in ensuring end-to-end visibility across our systems, applications, and services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Splunk Administration & Engineering
• Serve as the SME for Splunk architecture, deployment, and configuration across the enterprise.
• Maintain and optimize Splunk infrastructure, including indexers, forwarders, search heads, and clusters.
• Develop and manage custom dashboards, alerts, saved searches, and visualizations.
• Implement and tune log ingestion pipelines using Splunk Universal Forwarders, Event Collector, and other data inputs.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of the Splunk environment.
• Creating dashboards, Reports, Alerts, Advance Splunk Search, Visualization, log parsing and external table lookups
• Expertise with SPL (Search Processing Language ) and understanding of Splunk architecture, including configuration files.
• Wide Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting applications using tools like AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, Argos ,OTEL, etc. to build observability for large-scale microservice deployments.
• Creating dashboards for various applications to monitor health, network issues and configure alerts.
• Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems
• Establishing and documenting run books and guidelines for using the multi-cloud infrastructure and microservices platform.
• Experience in optimized search queries using summary indexing.
• Solid knowledge and experience in monitoring the Splunk infrastructure.
• Develop a long-term strategy and roadmap for AI/ML tooling to support the AI capabilities across the Splunk portfolio.
• Diagnose and resolve network-related issues affecting CI/CD pipelines, debug DNS, firewall, proxy, and SSL/TLS problems, and use tools like tcpdump, curl, and netstat for proactive maintenance.

Enterprise Monitoring & Observability

• Design and implement holistic enterprise monitoring solutions integrating Splunk with tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, SolarWinds, or others.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and security teams to define monitoring KPIs, SLAs, and alert thresholds.
• Build end-to-end visibility into application performance, system health, and user experience.
• Integrate Splunk with ITSM platforms (e.g., ServiceNow) for event and incident management automation.

Operations, Troubleshooting & Optimization

• Perform data onboarding, parsing, and field extraction for structured and unstructured data sources.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis using Splunk for troubleshooting and forensics.
• Regularly audit and optimize search performance, data retention policies, and index lifecycle management.
• Create runbooks, documentation, and SOPs for Splunk and monitoring tool usage.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, DevOps, or monitoring roles.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise as an admin, architect, or engineer.
• Experience designing and managing large-scale, multi-site Splunk deployments.
• Strong skills in SPL (Search Processing Language), dashboard design, and alerting strategies.
• Familiarity with Linux systems, scripting (e.g., Bash, Python), and APIs.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools and integration with Splunk (e.g., AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Nagios, Zabbix, etc.).
• Understanding of logging, metrics, and tracing in modern environments (on-prem and cloud).
• Strong understanding of network protocols, system logs, and application telemetry.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Splunk certifications (e.g., Splunk Certified Power User, Admin, Architect).
• Experience with Splunk ITSI, Enterprise Security, or Observability Suite.
• Knowledge of cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud monitoring integrations.
• Experience with log aggregation, security event monitoring, or compliance (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, SOX).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.