Senior Observability Engineer

VSG Business Solutions LLC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VSG Business Solutions LLC is seeking a hands-on Senior Observability Engineer to implement monitoring, telemetry, logging, and distributed tracing across enterprise apps and cloud-native environments. The role requires instrumenting applications and implementing OpenTelemetry.

You will build observability capabilities, manage dashboards with Grafana and Azure Monitor, configure Application Insights, and optimize logs, metrics, and traces for AKS workloads.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience instrumenting applications and building observability capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of OpenTelemetry and correlation IDs across distributed systems.
• Experience with AKS-based workloads and cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications, APIs, and microservices.
• Configure and manage logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Design and maintain structured logging standards and correlation strategies.
• Implement distributed tracing using correlation IDs and trace context propagation.
• Build and manage monitoring dashboards using Grafana and Azure Monitor.
• Configure and optimize Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Implement monitoring solutions for AKS-based workloads.
• Deploy and manage Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Analyze incidents and perform root cause analysis using observability data.
• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE teams.

Skills

OpenTelemetry

Structured Logging

Azure Monitor

Azure Application Insights

KQL

API Monitoring

Distributed Tracing

Correlation IDs

Telemetry Implementation

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Tools

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Grafana

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

New Relic

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for hands-on Senior Observability Engineers to implement monitoring, telemetry, logging, and distributed tracing solutions across enterprise applications and cloud-native environments. The ideal candidate should have strong experience instrumenting applications, implementing OpenTelemetry, and building observability capabilities for production platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications, APIs, and microservices.
• Configure and manage logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Design and maintain structured logging standards and correlation strategies.
• Implement distributed tracing using correlation IDs and trace context propagation.
• Build and manage monitoring dashboards using Azure Monitor and Grafana.
• Configure and optimize Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Implement monitoring solutions for AKS-based workloads.
• Deploy and manage Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logging, and tracing.
• Analyze incidents and perform root cause analysis using observability data.
• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE teams.

Required Skills

Must Have

• OpenTelemetry
• Structured Logging
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Application Insights
• KQL
• API Monitoring
• Distributed Tracing
• Correlation IDs
• Telemetry Implementation
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Cloud & Platform

• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
• Prometheus
• Loki
• Tempo
• Grafana

Good to Have

• Dynatrace
• Datadog
• Splunk
• New Relic
• CI/CD Monitoring Integration

Preferred Profile

• Strong hands-on implementation experience.
• Experience supporting production-grade cloud applications.
• Background in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations.

Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.