Remote Senior Monitoring & Observability Engineer

Peraton; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Monitoring and Observability Engineer to build and operate telemetry, monitoring, and alerting for an enterprise platform running in AWS and AWS GovCloud within a FedRAMP boundary. This hands-on role reports to the Senior SRE/Observability Lead, focusing on instrumentation, dashboards, alert quality, and telemetry pipeline reliability across metrics, logs, and traces.

The candidate will work closely with the platform engineering and SRE teams to ensure full instrumentation,

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience, a Master's Degree and 6 years of experience, or a High School diploma or equivalent and 12 years.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with enterprise observability, monitoring, and alerting platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, Datadog, and/or Splunk, including instrumentation, dashboarding, and alert design.
• Working knowledge of metrics, logs, and traces, and experience with OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation.
• Experience operating in AWS and/or AWS GovCloud; familiarity with containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• Experience with Ansible / Ansible Tower / AAP for automated agent and configuration deployment.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD (and Jenkins) for building observability-as-code pipelines.
• Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end telemetry pipelines across Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Instrument applications and infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces; support OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation.
• Design observability for distributed systems: microservices, containers, and cloud-native workloads in AWS/GovCloud.
• Build dashboards and golden-signal monitoring aligned to service criticality; enable correlation across metrics, events, logs, and traces.
• Monitor the health of the observability platforms themselves and remediate collector, agent, and pipeline issues.
• Build and tune alert definitions with clear ownership, severity, and runbook links for every production alert.
• Support on-call rotations and participate in incident bridges, providing telemetry-driven triage and root-cause data.
• Integrate alert routing, deduplication, and maintenance-window handling with ServiceNow and paging tools.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews with detection-source analysis and MTTD/MTTA trend reporting.
• Deploy and configure observability agents/collectors using Ansible, Ansible Tower, and AAP for automated rollout across environments.
• Build observability-as-code pipelines in GitLab (GitLab CI/CD), including automated dashboard, alert, and collector-configuration deployment.
• Partner with platform engineering to instrument new Terraform-provisioned infrastructure as part of standard build patterns.
• Advance configuration-as-code for pipelines, dashboards, and alert definitions so changes are versioned and peer-reviewed.
• Governance, capacity, and compliance: tagging conventions, dashboard/alert lifecycle, and retention governance.

Skills

Observability tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS GovCloud

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Python

Bash

Go

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 8 years

Master's Degree + 6 years

HS diploma + 12 years

Tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Peraton seeks a Monitoring and Observability Engineer to build and operate telemetry, monitoring, and alerting for an enterprise platform running in AWS and AWS GovCloud within a FedRAMP boundary. This hands-on role reports to the Senior SRE/Observability Lead, focusing on instrumentation, dashboards, alert quality, and telemetry pipeline reliability across metrics, logs, and traces.

The candidate will work closely with the platform engineering and SRE teams to ensure full instrumentation,