Sr Observability Engineer

I have a long term contract opportunity for a Senior Observability Engineer to join the team located in Bethlehem PA. This role is responsible for the administration, configuration, implementation, and ongoing optimization of observability platforms that enable end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native workloads.

No 3rd Parties/No Sponsorship (H1-B, OPT, CPT, F1 oris eligible)

Rate: $80-$85/hr

This is 2 days onsite and 3 days remote in Holmdel, NJ.

Responsibilities:

• Continuously monitor the health, availability, and performance of observability platforms.
• Ensure data integrity, retention, and availability across metrics, logs, and traces.
• Proactively identify and remediate platform performance, scalability, and reliability issues.
• Administer, configure, and support Splunk (OpenTelemetry or AppDynamics) platforms to meet enterprise monitoring and observability needs.
• Design and implement observability solutions aligned to MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) best practices.
• Perform regular upgrades, patching, and security hardening of observability platforms.
• Implement and support observability for AWS services, including:
• Deliver full-stack observability, including:
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and alerts in AppDynamics and Splunk.
• Collaborate with application, platform, and DevOps teams to define meaningful monitoring and alerting standards.
• Reduce noise through alert tuning and promote actionable signal over raw data.
• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and automation frameworks.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, JavaScript, or Bash to streamline onboarding, configuration, and maintenance activities.
• Partner with IT, SRE, and DevOps teams to ensure comprehensive monitoring coverage.
• Participate in incident response efforts, leveraging observability data to accelerate detection, diagnosis, and resolution.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5–7+ years of experience in Observability, Monitoring, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing, managing, and maintaining AppDynamics, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry in enterprise environments.

Observability Platforms:

• AppDynamics (APM, dashboards, alerts)
• Splunk (configuration, administration, data onboarding)
• OpenTelemetry (instrumentation, collectors, sampling)
• EKS, ECS, Lambda
• SNS/SQS, S3, CloudWatch
• GitHub, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
• CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
• Strong expertise in Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)
• Full-stack and cloud-native observability
• Python, JavaScript, Bash
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure, applications, and networking

Please feel free to reach out directly:

Lori Sklarski

Senior Technical Recruiter, PRI Technology