3008 - Sr. Observability Engineer

Intertech, Inc; Minnesota; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking a Sr. Observability Engineer for a remote contract opportunity. The role focuses on maintaining and automating log management solutions and observability platforms. Candidates should have strong monitoring tools experience, scripting abilities in Python, and familiarity with Terraform and Ansible. This position offers competitive hourly rates between $45 to $70, depending on contract type.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with monitoring tools.
• Hands-on experience in designing data pipelines.
• Experience in managing configurations in commercial and Gov clouds.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting.
• Design and maintain log aggregation solutions.
• Build monitoring systems to detect issues early.

Skills

Monitoring tools expertise

Scripting in Python

Terraform and Ansible

Problem-solving abilities

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Dynatrace

ELK

Logstash

Grafana

Job description

Overview

Sr. Observability Engineer

Remote contract opportunity

As an Observability Engineer, this role is focused on maintaining the reliability, scalability and availability of our Log management solution as well as our Metrics and Observability platform which heavily uses automation (terraform, Ansible and scripts). This role requires maintaining performance KPI of our solutions and defining their SLOs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting.
• Design, configuration and maintenance of log aggregation solution at a large scale.
• Set up and manage ingestion pipelines and data transformations
• Have the mindset of “automate any task”.

• Monitoring and Alerting: Build and maintain robust monitoring systems using tools like Elk, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana to detect potential issues early and trigger alerts for timely response.
• Maintain associated documentation as it applies to our audit and certification requirements
• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities
• Research new monitoring requirements and in many cases write code to accomplish.
• Strong expertise in setting up monitoring policies/rules/templates; and writing scripts to accomplish monitoring requirements.

What you need to succeed

• BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent, OR 5+ years of experience.
• 3+ years of experience working directly with monitoring tools as either an Admin, SME or as an Architect, preferably with Dynatrace and/or ELK.
• Hands-on experience with designing data pipelines using Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd.
• Fluent in writing scripts in languages like Python and (Bash or PowerShell) to automate tasks.
• Experience in Terraform and Ansible. Syntax, best practices, and managing complex configurations in multi commercial and Gov clouds to build and manage infra and applications.
• Very good working knowledge with Linux OS.
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Good analytical and problem-solving/troubleshooting abilities

Helpful Skills

• Knowledge of SNMP, TCP dump and tracing.
• Knowledge of AIOPS platform.
• Other scripting experience (JavaScript, Java, PowerShell, or others)

Hourly Rates: $45 – $55/Hr W2, $55 – $70/Hr 1099/C2C