Splunk Engineer, Splunk Administrator, Splunk SPL, OpenTelemetry, APM, observability, distributed tracing, Splunk APM, SignalFx, Dynatrace, synthetic monitoring, LogicMonitor, AutoSys, PagerDuty, SLO, alerting, dashboards, correlation searches, log monitoring, metrics, traces, OTLP, OpenTelemetry Collector, shell scripting, PowerShell, Linux, Windows, enterprise monitoring, incident response, application instrumentation, telemetry, operational dashboards, monitoring architecture, fintech technology, regulated environments, contract-to-hire, Warren NJ, New Jersey technology jobs, infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, production support, custom collectors, dashboard development, Splunk dashboards, workload automation, observability engineering, enterprise IT, monitoring integration, logging strategy, support operations, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, SRE, APM consultant, telemetry architecture, data integration, monitoring solutions, IT operations, technical consultant, cloud monitoring, legacy platform monitoring, automation engineering, incident management, root cause analysis, production observability, enterprise applications, real-time monitoring, operational analytics, Splunk integration, monitoring framework, systems monitoring, application logs, enterprise support, technology consulting, Splunk specialist, observability specialist. We're looking for a senior hands-on Observability Architect/Engineer who has actually designed and built enterprise monitoring platforms using Splunk/OTel/APM/Cribl, can integrate logs, metrics, and traces across Windows, Linux, and AIX, build alerting and synthetic monitoring, automate onboarding, and personally troubleshoot the platform in production.