Observability Engineer

The Fountain Group; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

The Fountain Group in Dallas, TX is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to design, implement, and automate enterprise observability platforms with a focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and telemetry pipelines. The role is W2, hybrid in Dallas with onsite three days per week.

This contract-to-hire position requires 5+ years of experience and strong Terraform IaC skills. The ideal candidate will have Linux/cloud administration experience and be able to drive modernization of observability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
• Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management.
• Play a key role in modernizing observability capabilities and migrating from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.
• Collaborate with application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices.

Skills

Grafana

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Linux

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Kubernetes

Cloud administration

Monitoring & alerting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Grafana

Job description

PAY: $75-85/hour W2

W2.Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance. This is a Hybrid role in Dallas, TX, onsite work required 3 days a week. W2 Candidates preferred. This is a contrct to hire role all candidates must be willing to convert to perm.

Description

• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team.
• This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management.
• The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices.
• This role will play a key part in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
• Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms.
• Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus.
• Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability.
• Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models.
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.

Who We Are: The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort. Browse our website below for additional information on our company. The Fountain Group 3407 W Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Tampa, FL 33607 "We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people."