Observability Operations Engineer - Phoenix (Contract)

Themesoft Inc; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

The Observability Operations Engineer role based in Phoenix, AZ, is a 6-month, contract position requiring local candidates. You will administer Dynatrace, Splunk and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, and support Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments while driving AI-assisted operations.

Responsibilities include building dashboards, alerts, RCA, and collaborating with SRE/DevOps teams to ensure platform performance, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications

• Strong Observability Admin experience with Dynatrace, Splunk, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Hands-on monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and dashboards.
• Solid knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and related tools.
• Automation using Python/Shell scripting and REST APIs.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale production environments and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Dynatrace, Splunk, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch platforms.
• Maintain platform availability, scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Build and manage monitoring, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerts, and metrics.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis with observability tools.
• Support Linux, Kubernetes, container, and cloud environments.
• Automate operational tasks and drive self-healing and AI-assisted ops.
• Manage upgrades, patches, capacity planning, backups and governance.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Platform, Infrastructure and App teams.

Skills

Observability

Dynatrace

Splunk

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Python scripting

REST APIs

RCA

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

The Observability Operations Engineer role based in Phoenix, AZ, is a 6-month, contract position requiring local candidates. You will administer Dynatrace, Splunk and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, and support Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments while driving AI-assisted operations.

Responsibilities include building dashboards, alerts, RCA, and collaborating with SRE/DevOps teams to ensure platform performance, reliability, and scalability.