Sr Technical Architect - Cloud

Splunk Architect

Comparable Title: Observability Architect

Overview

• Leading AI-driven Global Supply Chain Solutions Software Product Company and one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places To Work”
• Seeking a Splunk Architect who will be a member of the Cloud Visibility team based in Dallas. This person needs to have experience designing, developing, and deploying Splunk based solutions in both on premise and cloud-based environments. This person will help design and implement multiple Splunk projects to enhance our log analytics, visualization and analysis initiative that is a key facilitator of our observability platform.
• Scope
• Core responsibilities include architecting our Observability platform for BlueYonders SaaS Platform focusing on Splunk ITSI.
• The SaaS visibility team is a global architecture team created to work with everybody from product development to end customers to provide real-time alerting, analytics and correlation through ML/AI, and insights through advanced dashboarding.
• To help move our global monitoring from reactive to preventative.
  
  

What you’ll do?

• Acting as a senior leader to architect and develop our log analytics, visualization, and analysis initiative.
• Build out our use of Splunk ITSI to support hundreds of customers
• Use AI/ML to enable preventive insights
• Provide creative methods of taking terabytes of information to easily understood visual dashboards and alerts
• Will further define and build our observability platform
• Develop and document future state.
• Help build a collaborative culture through delivery of functionality in a DevOps model.
• Be a leader and expert on Splunk practices and components
• Be an evangelist of Splunk in the company
• Lead, teach and develop Splunk talent throughout the organization.
• Design and implement Splunk maintenance and operation standards.
• Scope and implement Splunk projects with an emphasis on ITSI, from start-to-finish, including but not limited to:
• Gathering requirements
• Data ingestion (forwarders, API calls, DB queries, modular inputs)
• Mapping data fields to CIM
• Dashboard Creation and iteration
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Splunk Architect/Engineer in a business critical Splunk environment
• Experience with ITSI including full-stack monitoring, event correlation, noise reduction
• Experience with ML/AI technologies
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure and how components correlate (servers [Windows and Linux], databases, storage arrays, networking equipment, Active directory, etc.)
• Have led initiatives and collaboration across global teams
• Familiarization with all components of a distributed Splunk environment (search head and index clusters, deployment servers, forwarders, management consoles)
• Creation and maintenance of alerts, saved searches, and other knowledge objects
• Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements across Cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using Splunk to monitor a public cloud (Azure)
• Prepares and maintains systems and application support documentation and schematics.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Excellent problem solving, planning and organizing skills.
• Agile thinker with adaptability to changing priorities
• Experience with leading a global team
  
  

Our Values

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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