Sr Engineer - Applications & Observability

Unisys; Center Square (PA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Unisys is seeking an observability specialist in Center Square, Pennsylvania, to manage and improve monitoring solutions across various environments. You will ensure compliance with service level agreements while collaborating with engineering teams to integrate observability into system architectures.

The ideal candidate will bring 4–6 years of relevant experience, expertise in observability platforms like Datadog, and strong scripting skills in languages such as Python and Bash. This role offers diverse responsibilities, including performance monitoring, incident management, and automation insights.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of relevant experience in complex environments.
• Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to design and optimize alerting rules and thresholds.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage monitoring solutions for various environments.
• Support incident management and provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on observability architecture.

Skills

Scripting/Automation Skills

Proficiency with Observability/Monitoring Platforms

Root Cause Analysis

Capacity Planning

Experience with Infrastructure as Code Tools

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

AWS monitoring and logging services

Azure monitoring and logging services

GCP monitoring and logging services

Job description

What Success Looks Like In This Role

• Responds to and resolves higher level / more complex client and user operational issues.
• Works with Enterprise Applications team members to define end-user requirements, functionality specifications and deliverables.
• Designs new and modifies existing solution strategies to ensure achievement of SLA requirements.
• Maintains all technical deliverables including technical design specifications and configuration changes.
• Performs application configuration, extension, integration and performance tuning.
• Handles issues escalated from less experienced team members, clients and other stakeholders.
• Helps design, plan and implement enhancements to standard operating procedures.

Observability Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage monitoring and observability solutions for servers, applications, databases, network devices, and cloud environments.
• Configure and maintain observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Develop dashboards and reports to provide visibility into system health, service performance, availability, and operational KPIs.
• Set up and fine-tune alerting mechanisms, thresholds, escalation rules, and notification workflows to ensure timely incident detection and response.
• Monitor infrastructure and application performance to ensure adherence to SLA, SLO, and availability targets.
• Perform analysis of logs, alerts, and telemetry data to identify trends, anomalies, and potential service risks.
• Support incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis by providing actionable monitoring insights.
• Integrate monitoring tools with ITSM, event management, automation, and ticketing platforms.
• Reduce alert noise through alert optimization, event correlation, and dependency mapping.
• Support cloud and platform migrations by ensuring observability coverage during transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to embed observability into system architecture and deployment pipelines.
• Perform capacity planning, utilization analysis, and trend forecasting for infrastructure and application environments.
• Automate monitoring configuration, maintenance, and deployment using scripting or Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, dashboard standards, and monitoring governance processes.
• Ensure compliance with logging, monitoring, audit, and operational security requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives including AIOps, self-healing, automation, and proactive event management.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

• BA/BS degree and 4–6 years of relevant experience, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting and configuring enterprise applications in complex environments.
• Proficiency with observability/monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Hands‑on experience with metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems.
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring and logging services.
• Experience integrating monitoring tools with ITSM and event management platforms.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis, trend analysis, and capacity planning using telemetry data.
• Experience embedding observability into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Ability to design and optimize alerting rules, thresholds, and correlation logic.
• Understanding of logging/monitoring compliance, audit, and security requirements.
• Experience with automation, AIOps, and self‑healing or event‑driven operations.

This role may require access to export‑controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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