Observability Engineer

Largeton Group; United States; On-site; USD 117,096 - 123,984; Part time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the United States is seeking a mid-senior level observability engineer to enhance system performance through tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, and AppDynamics. The role involves deploying monitoring solutions and analyzing telemetry data to optimize reliability. Candidates should have extensive hands-on experience in observability practices, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and strong problem-solving skills. This contract position offers competitive pay based on skill and expertise.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing Dynatrace for full-stack observability.
• Strong experience with Splunk and AppDynamics for monitoring and alerting.
• Ability to analyze telemetry data to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and administer Dynatrace, focusing on automation.
• Collaboration with development, SRE, and operations teams for improved observability.
• Support incident resolution and optimize reliability based on telemetry data.

Skills

Dynatrace

Splunk

AppDynamics

DQL queries

monitoring tasks automation

Job description

This range is provided by Largeton Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$85.00/yr - $90.00/yr

Job Requirements

• Extensive hands‑on experience designing and implementing Dynatrace for full‑stack observability (applications, infrastructure, cloud).
• Strong hands‑on experience with Splunk (design, implementation, dashboarding, alerting).
• Strong hands‑on experience with AppDynamics (AppD) (design, implementation, dashboarding, alerting).
• Skilled at building dashboards, alerts, DQL queries, and SLOs to monitor system health and performance.
• Proven ability to deploy, configure, and administer Dynatrace, including automation of monitoring tasks.
• Experience instrumenting applications and infrastructure for telemetry and observability.
• Ability to analyze telemetry data to detect, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues.
• Experience migrating observability/monitoring solutions from AppD and Splunk to Dynatrace.
• Collaboration with development, SRE, and operations teams for improved observability and reliability.
• In‑depth knowledge of modern observability practices and tools.
• Strong hands‑on expertise working directly on the operating system and observability tools (not just dashboard users).
• Ability to support incident resolution and optimize reliability based on telemetry data.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Information Services