Senior Observability Engineer – Remote Cloud Monitoring

Peraton; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will collaborate with platform engineering and the SRE team to ensure accurate instrumentation and actionable alerts while controlling

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance.
• 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.
• 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 and maintain telemetry pipelines end to end—collection, enrichment, routing, sampling, storage, and retention—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 production alerts.
• Support on-call rotations and incident bridges with telemetry-driven triage and data.

Job description

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

You will collaborate with platform engineering and the SRE team to ensure accurate instrumentation and actionable alerts while controlling