Senior Leader, Observability Platform Engineering

TEKsystems

Raleigh (NC)

Hybrid

USD 169,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match up to 5%

18 days PTO with option to buy an add.

Flexible hours

Job summary

TEKsystems in Raleigh, NC is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Observability practice. You will shape the strategy, governance, and roadmap for enterprise logging, metrics, and tracing, and drive incident response capabilities across AWS and other cloud platforms.

You will work with Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, New Relic, Dynatrace, and related tools to modernize observability.

Qualifications

This role requires engineering management experience within Observability, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Software Engineering organizations.
Strong understanding of logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, and monitoring strategies.
Experience with Prometheus and observability platforms such as New Relic, Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, Coralogix, or similar solutions.
Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and instrumentation best practices.
Experience building observability solutions in AWS environments and ingesting telemetry from cloud services.
Exposure to containers/Kubernetes and platform engineering concepts.
Ability to influence strategy, build roadmaps, and effectively manage upward across multiple stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

Define observability strategy, governance, and roadmap planning.
Enterprise logging, metrics, tracing, and incident response capabilities.
Implement modern observability tooling including Datadog, Coralogix, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and similar platforms.
Cloud-native observability across AWS (Azure/GCP experience also welcomed).
Platform adoption, operational excellence, and cost optimization initiatives.
Global team leadership, stakeholder management, and executive-level communication.