Senior Observability Engineer | OpenTelemetry & Reliability

TEKsystems; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k)

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

HSA

Transit benefits

EAP

PTO

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to advance enterprise observability across a large-scale cloud environment. You will define observability standards, enhance platform visibility, and empower engineering teams to monitor, diagnose, and optimize critical applications and services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with development, SRE, and platform teams to drive reliability, reduce telemetry noise, and improve incident response.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Observability Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of Metrics, Logs, Distributed Tracing, Alerting & Monitoring Strategies.
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
• Experience supporting cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience with observability platforms such as Coralogix, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, New Relic.
• Understanding of microservices architectures and cloud-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise observability solutions across metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
• Develop instrumentation standards using OpenTelemetry and modern observability frameworks.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and service health indicators that support reliability and business outcomes.
• Improve visibility across development, test, and production environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and close monitoring gaps.

Skills

Linux

Cloud

Python

AWS

DevOps

Automation

Azure

Admin

Active Directory

Terraform

Kubernetes

Security

Tools

Coralogix

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

New Relic

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Observability Engineer to advance enterprise observability across a large-scale cloud environment. You will define observability standards, enhance platform visibility, and empower engineering teams to monitor, diagnose, and optimize critical applications and services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with development, SRE, and platform teams to drive reliability, reduce telemetry noise, and improve incident response.