Expert-level Splunk knowledge, including search, distributed deployment concepts, data onboarding, indexing, parsing, knowledge management, data models, dashboards, alerting, security, performance, and lifecycle planning; deep knowledge of integrating SolarWinds, Snare, Sunbird DCIM, or comparable systems into enterprise observability workflows. The position leads the design and lifecycle of observability platforms, serves as the senior escalation point for complex issues, mentors engineers, advises leadership, and drives automation and continuous improvement in service visibility, reliability, performance, data quality, and ingest efficiency.