Job#: 3046566 Job Description: Senior Observability Engineer
Location(s): Dallas, TX | Tampa, FL | Jersey City, NJ
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management. The ideal candidate has experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling teams to adopt standardized observability practices. This role will be integral in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support Grafana Cloud and on-premises Grafana deployments.
- Design and implement enterprise observability solutions for metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and alerting.
- Establish and maintain observability standards, best practices, and governance processes.
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules for Grafana infrastructure and configuration management.
- Automate onboarding of applications, infrastructure, dashboards, alerts, and data sources.
- Design monitoring and alerting strategies based on service health and business-critical workflows.
- Implement and support OpenTelemetry instrumentation across applications and infrastructure.
- Support migration initiatives from legacy observability platforms to Grafana.
- Work closely with application development, infrastructure, cloud, and SRE teams.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers across the organization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering.
- Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines.
- Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
- Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus.
- Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability.
- Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models.
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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