Senior Observability Engineer
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Job Location:
Iselin, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
21 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Functional role: Senior Observability Engineer
Location: 3 days/week onsite in Iselin NJ
Duration: 3-6 months
The Role:
Near-term (Months 1-3):
o Build and expand Grafana dashboards integrating data from various systems (StatusGator ControlUp APIs etc.) to establish immediate service visibility
o Design and implement alert notification workflows and triage procedures (up/down status warning thresholds severity levels etc.)
o Establish integration between monitoring platforms and our ticketing system (Ivanti) for automated ticket creation and routing
o Define alert handling procedures and escalation paths
Long-term (Strategic): Own the design and implementation of our comprehensive enterprise observability strategy from start to finish including:
o Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs) across the organization
o Architecting metrics logging and tracing pipelines
o Establishing alerting frameworks and escalation procedures
o Building monitoring standards and best practices
o Driving cultural shift from reactive to proactive monitoring
o Creating business-relevant metrics and reporting for leadership
Location: 3 days/week onsite in Iselin NJ
Duration: 3-6 months
The Role:
Near-term (Months 1-3):
o Build and expand Grafana dashboards integrating data from various systems (StatusGator ControlUp APIs etc.) to establish immediate service visibility
o Design and implement alert notification workflows and triage procedures (up/down status warning thresholds severity levels etc.)
o Establish integration between monitoring platforms and our ticketing system (Ivanti) for automated ticket creation and routing
o Define alert handling procedures and escalation paths
Long-term (Strategic): Own the design and implementation of our comprehensive enterprise observability strategy from start to finish including:
o Defining service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs) across the organization
o Architecting metrics logging and tracing pipelines
o Establishing alerting frameworks and escalation procedures
o Building monitoring standards and best practices
o Driving cultural shift from reactive to proactive monitoring
o Creating business-relevant metrics and reporting for leadership
Required Qualifications:
Proven experience designing and implementing end-to-end observability solutions at enterprise scale using platforms such as Datadog Dynatrace New Relic Splunk or similar tools - the specific platform is less important than demonstrated ability to architect and execute complete observability transformations
3 years of hands-on Grafana experience including:
o Dashboard creation standards and best practices
o Alerting configuration and management
o Templating RBAC and publishing
o API integration and data ingestion
o Clear runbook and documentation development
OpenTelemetry instrumentation experience (metrics logs traces pipelines)
Experience with ITSM platform integrations (ServiceNow Ivanti Jira Service Management etc.) for automated ticketing workflows
Track record of leading observability initiatives for large organizations (1000 employees) from inception through full implementation
Experience defining and implementing organization-wide SLOs/SLIs and monitoring strategies
Strong execution focus with demonstrated ability to deliver against milestones and see projects through to completion
Excellent communication skills - ability to explain technical concepts to business leadership and influence organizational change
Demonstrable portfolio of complete observability solutions implemented (not just dashboards - full platform implementations and strategies)
Results-oriented approach with ability to balance tactical wins with strategic vision
Proven experience designing and implementing end-to-end observability solutions at enterprise scale using platforms such as Datadog Dynatrace New Relic Splunk or similar tools - the specific platform is less important than demonstrated ability to architect and execute complete observability transformations
3 years of hands-on Grafana experience including:
o Dashboard creation standards and best practices
o Alerting configuration and management
o Templating RBAC and publishing
o API integration and data ingestion
o Clear runbook and documentation development
OpenTelemetry instrumentation experience (metrics logs traces pipelines)
Experience with ITSM platform integrations (ServiceNow Ivanti Jira Service Management etc.) for automated ticketing workflows
Track record of leading observability initiatives for large organizations (1000 employees) from inception through full implementation
Experience defining and implementing organization-wide SLOs/SLIs and monitoring strategies
Strong execution focus with demonstrated ability to deliver against milestones and see projects through to completion
Excellent communication skills - ability to explain technical concepts to business leadership and influence organizational change
Demonstrable portfolio of complete observability solutions implemented (not just dashboards - full platform implementations and strategies)
Results-oriented approach with ability to balance tactical wins with strategic vision
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
