Senior Cloud Observability Engineer (Remote • AWS GovCloud)

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is hiring a Senior Monitoring and Observability Engineer to build and operate telemetry pipelines across Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk in a FedRAMP boundary on AWS GovCloud. You will instrument, monitor, and alert on distributed cloud-native systems, enabling fast diagnosis and cost control.

The role collaborates with platform and SRE teams to ensure consistent instrumentation, dashboards, and reliable alerting, with on-call support and incident response participation.

Qualifications

• US citizen with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years (or Master's with 6+; or HS with 12+).
• 4+ years hands-on enterprise observability experience.
• Hands-on with Dynatrace, Datadog, or Splunk including instrumentation.
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation knowledge.
• AWS and/or AWS GovCloud experience; containerized/cloud-native workloads.
• Experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower, AAP and GitLab CI/CD/Jenkins.
• Python, Bash, or Go scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain telemetry pipelines end-to-end across Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Instrument applications and infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Design observability for distributed systems in AWS/GovCloud.
• Build dashboards and golden-signal monitoring; enable cross-domain correlation.
• Monitor the health of observability platforms and remediate issues.
• Build and tune alert definitions with clear ownership and runbooks.
• Support on-call rotations and incident bridges with telemetry-driven triage.
• Integrate alert routing with ServiceNow and paging tools.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews with detection-source analysis and MTTR trends.
• Deploy observability agents with Ansible/Tower/AAP; migrate Jenkins to GitLab.
• Advance configuration-as-code for pipelines, dashboards, and alerts.

Skills

Observability engineering

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS GovCloud

Python

Bash

Go

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Peraton is hiring a Senior Monitoring and Observability Engineer to build and operate telemetry pipelines across Dynatrace, Datadog, and Splunk in a FedRAMP boundary on AWS GovCloud. You will instrument, monitor, and alert on distributed cloud-native systems, enabling fast diagnosis and cost control.

The role collaborates with platform and SRE teams to ensure consistent instrumentation, dashboards, and reliable alerting, with on-call support and incident response participation.