This is a contract-to-hire position for a Splunk Observability & APM Integration Specialist based in Warren, New Jersey. The role is available for a minimum of 6 months and focuses on building an enterprise monitoring and observability framework, establishing Splunk as the central analytics and dashboarding platform while integrating existing monitoring tools, application telemetry, infrastructure data, batch pipelines, and messaging platforms. Responsibilities Build Splunk dashboards, correlation searches, and SPL-based operational views that support a single-pane monitoring model. Integrate LogicMonitor, AutoSys, OpenTelemetry, and custom data collectors into Splunk. Establish practical APM capabilities, including distributed tracing using an OpenTelemetry-first approach. Assess and advise on buy-versus-build decisions across Splunk APM/SignalFx and Dynatrace. Design synthetic monitoring for critical user journeys, including SLOs, alerting, escalation workflows, and PagerDuty routing. Qualifications Required Advanced Splunk administration Expert-level SPL (Splunk Processing Language) OpenTelemetry APM and distributed tracing Splunk APM/SignalFx Dynatrace Synthetic monitoring Shell scripting PowerShell LogicMonitor AutoSys Enterprise observability (logs, metrics, traces, SLOs, alerting, and dashboard development)