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Sr Engineer - Applications & Observability

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Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in USA
Senior level
Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring solutions across servers, applications, databases, networks, and cloud. Configure platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts; integrate with ITSM and CI/CD pipelines; perform tuning, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and automation (IaC, scripting). Support incident and problem management, reduce alert noise, and contribute to AIOps and self-healing initiatives while ensuring compliance and operational governance.
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What success looks like in this role:

• Responds to and resolves higher level / more complex client and user operational issues.
• Works with Enterprise Applications team members to define end-user requirements, functionality specifications and deliverables.
• Designs new and modifies existing solution strategies to ensure achievement of SLA requirements.
• Maintains all technical deliverables including technical design specifications and configuration changes.
• Performs application configuration, extension, integration and performance tuning.
• Handles issues escalated from less experienced team members, clients and other stakeholders.
• Helps design, plan and implement enhancements to standard operating procedures.

Observability Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage monitoring and observability solutions for servers, applications, databases, network devices, and cloud environments.
  • Configure and maintain observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into system health, service performance, availability, and operational KPIs.
  • Set up and fine-tune alerting mechanisms, thresholds, escalation rules, and notification workflows to ensure timely incident detection and response.
  • Monitor infrastructure and application performance to ensure adherence to SLA, SLO, and availability targets.
  • Perform analysis of logs, alerts, and telemetry data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential service risks.
  • Support incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis by providing actionable monitoring insights.
  • Integrate monitoring tools with ITSM, event management, automation, and ticketing platforms.
  • Reduce alert noise through alert optimization, event correlation, and dependency mapping.
  • Support cloud and platform migrations by ensuring observability coverage during transformation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to embed observability into system architecture and deployment pipelines.
  • Perform capacity planning, utilization analysis, and trend forecasting for infrastructure and application environments.
  • Automate monitoring configuration, maintenance, and deployment using scripting or Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, dashboard standards, and monitoring governance processes.
  • Ensure compliance with logging, monitoring, audit, and operational security requirements.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including AIOps, self-healing, automation, and proactive event management.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

  • BA/BS degree and 4–6 years of relevant experience, or equivalent.
  • Experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments.
  • Proficiency with observability/monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
  • Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring and logging services.
  • Experience integrating monitoring tools with ITSM and event management platforms.
  • Ability to perform root cause analysis, trend analysis, and capacity planning using telemetry data.
  • Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Ability to design and optimize alerting rules, thresholds, and correlation logic.
  • Understanding of logging/monitoring compliance, audit, and security requirements.
  • Experience with automation, AIOps, and self-healing or event-driven operations.

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This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology.  Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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