Observability Engineer

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 49,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant in Phoenix, AZ seeks an Observability Engineer with hands-on experience in monitoring, APM, and observability platforms. You will manage Dynatrace, OpenSearch/ELK, and Splunk, build dashboards, and improve cloud/on-prem telemetry across AWS/Azure and CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes incident analysis, RCA, and proactive tuning to enhance reliability, with a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, application performance management, and observability platforms.
• Familiarity with Dynatrace, Splunk/OpenSearch/ELK, and distributed tracing.
• Experience across cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the Dynatrace platform, including OneAgent, ActiveGate, alerting, anomaly detection, management zones, and dashboards.
• Implement and support observability solutions using Dynatrace, OpenSearch/ELK, and Splunk for application, infrastructure, and log monitoring.
• Perform incident analysis and troubleshooting, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), tune alerts, and resolve monitoring gaps to improve system reliability.
• Build dashboards, reports, and telemetry pipelines to provide operational visibility and performance insights across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Automate monitoring and integrate observability tools with CI/CD pipelines, ServiceNow, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and OpenTelemetry frameworks.

Skills

Dynatrace Administration

Splunk/OpenSearch/ELK

Observability

Distributed Tracing

AWS/Azure

CI/CD

Kubernetes/Containers

Job description

Observability Engineer

Experience: 6+ years

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Job Summary

We are seeking an Observability Engineer with hands‑on experience in monitoring, application performance management, and observability platforms. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Dynatrace, Splunk or OpenSearch/ELK, distributed tracing, cloud platforms, and modern DevOps practices.

Required Skills

• Dynatrace Administration & Monitoring
• Splunk OR OpenSearch/Elasticsearch (ELK)
• Monitoring & Observability Concepts
• Distributed Tracing & APM
• Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure)
• CI/CD & DevOps Practices
• Kubernetes / Containers

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the Dynatrace platform, including OneAgent, ActiveGate, alerting, anomaly detection, management zones, and dashboards.
• Implement and support observability solutions using Dynatrace, OpenSearch/ELK, and Splunk for application, infrastructure, and log monitoring.
• Perform incident analysis and troubleshooting, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), tune alerts, and resolve monitoring gaps to improve system reliability.
• Build dashboards, reports, and telemetry pipelines to provide operational visibility and performance insights across cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Automate monitoring and integrate observability tools with CI/CD pipelines, ServiceNow, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and OpenTelemetry frameworks.

Applications will be accepted until 9/11/2026

The annual salary for this position is between $49,000- $106,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and is subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contribution
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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