Network Engineer III

Employment type Contract

Job Title Network Engineer II

Job Location Boston, MA

Duration 6+

Experience level 10+

Mandatory Skills Network Engineer II

Job Description

Lead the strategy and implementation of synthetic monitoring solutions (e.g., uptime checks, transaction simulations, endpoint testing).

Manage and optimize infrastructure log collection, parsing, storage, and analysis across servers, network devices, and cloud platforms.

Set up and fine-tune monitoring tools to detect anomalies, bottlenecks, and performance degradation proactively.

Integrate observability solutions with alerting, incident management, and automation workflows.

Create and maintain dashboards, alerts, and log queries for operational visibility.

Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and DevOps teams to ensure end-to-end observability.

Conduct root cause analysis using synthetic and log-based signals.

Define observability standards and best practices for log retention, normalization, and alert thresholds.

Provide guidance and training on effective use of synthetic and logging tools.

Required Skills & Experience:

5 10 years of experience in IT operations or SRE roles with a strong focus on monitoring and logging.

Hands-on expertise with synthetic monitoring tools such as Pingdom, ThousandEyes, Datadog Synthetic, Uptrends, Catchpoint, or New Relic Synthetics.

Strong knowledge of log management tools like ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Fluentd, Graylog, Splunk, or Loki.

Experience integrating synthetic checks with alerting platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie).

Ability to write log queries and alerts to detect anomalies and automate incident response.

Familiarity with infrastructure (Linux/Windows servers, network devices) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

Understanding of SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and monitoring KPIs.

Experience with scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell) for log parsing and synthetic test creation.

Preferred Qualifications:

Certifications in relevant observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch).

Experience with OpenTelemetry or other telemetry standards.

Exposure to containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and their observability needs.

Understanding of security monitoring or compliance-related logging (SIEM concepts).

Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.