Sr Engr, DevOps (Sr. Observability Engineer)

Sr Engr, DevOps (Sr. Observability Engineer)

W2 Contract

Pay Rate: $62.11- $72.11 per hour

Location: Carrollton, TX - Onsite Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and scale comprehensive monitoring solutions using the New Relic platform, including APM, Infrastructure, Logs, Synthetics, and custom instrumentation (NRQL).


• Develop, manage, and maintain observability configurations-including alerts, dashboards, and synthetic checks-using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu.


• Create and refine insightful dashboards and actionable alerting policies in New Relic to provide real-time visibility into infrastructure and application health.


• Act as a subject matter expert on observability, guiding teams on best practices for logging, metrics, and tracing to improve system reliability and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).


• Analyze performance data and telemetry to identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot production issues, and drive performance optimization efforts across the stack.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).


• 7+ years of experience in a Cloud Engineering role (Observability, DevOps, SRE, etc).


• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the New Relic platform, including deep knowledge of Dashboards, NRQL, APM, and setting up effective alerting.


• 3+ years of experience managing infrastructure and configurations with IaC tools like Terraform/OpenTofu (preferred), AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Chef, or Ansible.


• Extensive hands-on experience working with major cloud providers such as AWS (preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.


• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.


• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking principles, Windows/Linux Server administration, microservices in a SaaS context, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD principles.


• Deep understanding of security best practices and their implementation in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Experience working in complexly regulated environments.


• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.


• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.

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