Senior Monitoring and Observability Engineer

Job Title: INFO SECURITY ANALYST IV (Senior Monitoring and Observability Engineer)

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 Months contract to fulltime hire

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements where permitted by contract.
• Strong hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise monitoring or observability platforms.
• Strong Datadog experience is preferred; however, substantial experience with ScienceLogic SL1, SolarWinds, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk Observability, LogicMonitor, PrometheGrafana, or comparable enterprise platforms will be considered based on demonstrated monitoring and observability engineering expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to apply monitoring and observability engineering principles across technologies and rapidly develop proficiency with new platforms.
• Production experience monitoring Windows and Linux infrastructure and Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Experience deploying, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting monitoring agents, integrations, dashboards, alerts, tagging, and operational reporting.
• Experience automating monitoring deployment or administration using Ansible, APIs, scripting, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating monitoring or observability platforms with ITSM systems such as ServiceNow.
• Strong troubleshooting and dependency-analysis skills across infrastructure, applications, networks, platforms, and services.
• Ability to analyze technical telemetry, identify monitoring or performance gaps, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Ability to communicate technical findings and recommendations to technical teams, project leadership, and customer stakeholders.
• Must  be able to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust or other required clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience engineering or administering Datadog in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience with application performance monitoring, distributed tracing, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with Datadog APM, Log Management, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, Network Performance Monitoring, Database Monitoring, or related capabilities.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, CNV, KubeVirt, or related Kubernetes-based virtualization technologies.
• Experience monitoring Microsoft Azure or AWS environments.
• Experience with Terraform, monitoring-as-code, API-driven deployment, or related infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Experience supporting federal agency IT environments governed by FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST, or related security requirements.
• Relevant technical certifications such as Datadog, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Terraform, or ITIL are preferred.