Senior 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** If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: [Core Values](https://blueyonder.com/about/core-values) 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.