Lead Integration & Observability Specialist

Role: Lead Integration & Observability Specialist

Location: McKinney TX (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Job Summary:

• We are seeking a Lead Integration & Observability Specialist to design implement and lead enterprise observability and reliability solutions while supporting cloud-based integration platforms on AWS/Azure. The role focuses on monitoring automation and operational readiness of applications APIs data pipelines and messaging systems.
• This is a hands-on technical leadership role with mentoring and solution ownership responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of enterprise observability for applications APIs services batch jobs and data pipelines.
• Design and standardize monitoring alerting logging metrics and health checks across distributed systems.
• Integrate observability platforms with incident management and automation tools to support proactive issue detection and remediation.
• Support reliability and availability of integration platforms built on AWS/Azure
• Perform advanced troubleshooting using logs metrics and traces to resolve production issues.
• Define operational readiness standards and non-functional requirements.
• Mentor engineers on observability best practices and platform usage.
• Collaborate with product support and operations teams to improve service stability and delivery.

Required Skills (Mandatory)

• 15 years of overall IT experience
• 7 years of relevant experience in Observability / Monitoring / Reliability Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise observability tools such as:
• Instana Dynatrace AppDynamics Prometheus Grafana

Expertise in:

• Monitoring and alerting design
• Log management and analysis
• Metrics and distributed tracing
• Health checks and SLO/SLI concepts
• Experience monitoring AWS/Azure workloads
• Strong troubleshooting and incident analysis skills
• Experience defining operational and non-functional requirements
• Technical leadership and mentoring experience
• Automation and ITSM integration (ServiceNow workflows incident automation)
• CI/CD and release management exposure
• Cloud integration and messaging exposure
• Automation and ITSM integration (ServiceNow workflows incident automation)