Observability Data Engineer

Atlas Technologies, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a Data Engineer Observability in the Charleston area to design, build, and maintain telemetry, logging, and tracing across data pipelines. You will implement monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for high-availability data platforms while collaborating with multiple engineering teams.

The role requires 3–5 years in observability, experience with Grafana/ELK, and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes. US citizenship and DoD security clearance are required.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience with observability technologies.
• Experience with open source monitoring and observability architectures (Grafana, ELK, or similar).
• Containerization experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Helm tooling is a plus.
• Agile and DevOps practices; strong documentation and cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for data platforms and pipelines.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, SLAs, and reporting.
• Integrate telemetry with observability tools (Grafana, ELK, Dynatrace).
• Operate and troubleshoot data pipelines and distributed systems across environments.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and technical design discussions.

Skills

Observability

Documentation

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Multi-project management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Grafana

Elastic ELK Stack

Docker

Kubernetes

Nginx

Helm

Swagger

Job description

Looking for a career where hard work is valued and your ideas and feedback are part of the way we operate daily Want to bring your skills to a company that encourages teamwork and champions continued education and process improvement Atlas Tech a veteran owned IT company serving multiple DoD customers in support of Americas warfighters is looking for a Data Engineer Observability in the Charleston SC Area to support data engineering efforts for PMW160 Tactical Networks The engineer will be responsible for designing building and maintaining the telemetry logging and tracing systems If you are comfortable in intense fast paced environments can think on your feet and excel in team based collaborative efforts then this may be the right fit for you

• Implement monitoring logging metrics tracing and alerting for data platforms and pipelines
• Develop dashboards alerts service objectives and reporting
• Integrate data platform telemetry with observability tools such as Grafana Elastic Splunk or Dynatrace
• Monitor data platform health throughput latency failures storage utilization and service availability
• Troubleshoot complex data flow application infrastructure and network issues across distributed systems
• Design build test and maintain reliable batch and real time data pipelines
• Containerize observability services and supporting applications using Docker
• Deploy and operate data workloads using Kubernetes
• Develop and maintain configuration for ingress reverse proxy load balancing and service routing components
• Automate platform deployment configuration testing and operational procedures
• Develop data ingestion transformation enrichment routing and delivery workflows
• Provide recommendations for observability best practices and process improvements
• Participate in architecture reviews peer reviews sprint planning and technical design discussions
• Contribute to team objectives and support data engineering initiatives
• Prepare technical documentation and present architecture proposals to engineering teams
• Partner with other engineering groups to understand their data requirements and with leadership to align technical infrastructure with mission objectives

• You Have 3 5 years experience with observability technologies
• Experience with open source monitoring and observability architectures such as Grafana LGTM Stack or Elastic ELK Stack
• Experience with containerization technologies Docker Kubernetes
• Experience with Kubernetes application packaging and deployment tools Helm
• Experience with high performance open source networking infrastructure tools such as Nginx
• Working knowledge of Agile methodology and DevOps practices
• Strong documentation and communication skills to work effectively across technical teams
• Collaborative mindset with ability to work in fast paced environments
• Self motivated with strong problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience
• US Citizenship
• Currently possess and maintain a Department of Defense DoD Secret Level Security Clearance
• Wed be Impressed if You Had Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5 years experience in data engineering roles
• Experience with CICD tools GitLab CI Azure DevOps
• Proficiency with version control systems and collaborative development tools
• Experience with configuration management and automation platforms Ansible Chef Puppet Terraform
• Programmingscripting experience JAVA Python PowerShell Bash Go
• Experience with api design and documentation tools such as Swagger
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing

Want to hear more Read on to see what our Team Members say about their experience From day 1 I knew Atlas Tech was where I wanted to be Atlas culture embraces creativeness community involvement and taking care of their employees If youre looking for a great place to work come join us Blane I could not have asked for a better company to transition from Active Duty military to civilian life Atlas not only provides opportunities for professional growth but its also highly encouraged The passion and appreciation for what we do that is displayed every day makes it exciting for me to come to work each day

Laurence Atlas Tech is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex age sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability genetic information or protected veteran status

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued and respected