URGENT HIRING||OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER||ST. LOUIS, MO (ONSITE ROLE)||NEED LOCAL CANDIDATE

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Hope you are doing well

I have an urgent opening of Observability Engineer at St. Louis, MO

Position Type: Contract
Location: St. Louis, MO, United States
Onsite Flexibility: Fully Onsite

Observability Engineer Senior SE
Responsible for designing and operating the end-to-end observability across hybrid private cloud and AWS environments. This engineer ensures full visibility into system performance, service interactions, and user experience across all services and supporting middleware. The role goes beyond simple dashboards and alerts it focuses on deep instrumentation, distributed tracing, and architectural observability patterns that enable fast debugging and systemic performance improvement. Ideal candidates have experience operating large-scale and multi-region distributed systems in Cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a unified observability strategy using Dynatrace.
• Design and deploy distributed tracing across all Spring Boot microservices, ensuring end-to-end transaction visibility.
• Engineer golden signals dashboards and trace-driven diagnostics that support real-time incident response and long-term trend analysis.
• Lead instrumentation deep dives: JVM metrics, custom Micrometer metrics, trace attributes, log correlation, and database timing.
• Implement and tune anomaly detection, alerting strategies, and noise reduction techniques.
• Develop reference architectures and best practices for observability in hybrid cloud environments.
• Perform root cause analysis for latency issues, error spikes, and system degradation incidents.
• Mentor teams on observability tooling and ensure developers adopt instrumentation patterns by default.

Areas of Expertise

• Application Instrumentation: Spring Boot metrics/logging/tracing, Micrometer, custom instrumentation, trace context propagation.
• Tracing & Telemetry: Dynatrace
• Metrics Pipeline: Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace metrics, CloudWatch metrics, histogram management, RED/USE methodologies.
• Logging & Correlation: Structured logging, log-enrichment, log aggregation, trace-log correlation in Splunk.
• Container & Orchestrator Observability: PCF, Kubernetes, ECS pod health, autoscaling, CPU throttling, memory pressure, node-level signals.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Visibility: AWS compute/network/storage telemetry, VPC flow logs, ALB/NLB observability, network path tracing.
• Database & Middleware Observability: Query latency, connection pool behavior, Redis/Kafka/Hazelcast metrics, MQ message flow visibility.

Regards,

Nitin Gupta
Team Lead-Recruitment
ShiftCode Analytics Inc.,
5118 Sylvester loop Tampa,
Florida 33610
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