Observability Engineer - Build Dashboards & Detect Anomalies

State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Oklahoma, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, is seeking an Observability Analyst to monitor, triage, and improve the monitoring and observability capabilities across server, cloud, and network environments. You will build dashboards, alerts, and turn telemetry into early warning signals to help teams find and fix problems before they impact the business.

This hands-on, on-site role in Oklahoma City requires Datadog experience and the ability to translate complex telemetry

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in IT/CS or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 2+ years in infrastructure monitoring, observability, systems administration, or IT operations.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
• Working knowledge of server, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), and network fundamentals for instrumentation and troubleshooting.
• Experience configuring dashboards, alerts, and notification workflows for incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability tooling across server, cloud, and network environments.
• Instrument infrastructure and services with metrics, logs, traces, and synthetic checks for full-stack visibility.
• Build dashboards to provide role-appropriate visibility into system health for engineers, managers, and leadership.
• Configure alert thresholds and escalation policies to detect issues early while minimizing noise.
• Integrate monitoring tools with incident management, ticketing, and on-call systems.

Skills

Datadog

Monitoring

Observability

Cloud

IT Operations

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

Dynatrace

New Relic

Splunk

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

The State of Oklahoma, Office of Management and Enterprise Services, is seeking an Observability Analyst to monitor, triage, and improve the monitoring and observability capabilities across server, cloud, and network environments. You will build dashboards, alerts, and turn telemetry into early warning signals to help teams find and fix problems before they impact the business.

This hands-on, on-site role in Oklahoma City requires Datadog experience and the ability to translate complex telemetry