The Observability Engineer configures and manages observability solutions, collaborates with teams, and ensures robust monitoring frameworks are in place for operational excellence.
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
The Observability Engineer is responsible for the hands-on implementation, configuration, and ongoing management of observability solutions. Engineers translate technical and functional requirements into robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions, supporting operational excellence and proactive issue management. This role collaborates closely with internal teams and client stakeholders, delivering consistent, scalable, and reliable outcomes. Engineers contribute actively to solution improvement, documentation, and knowledge sharing, continuously advancing their technical expertise across various observability platforms.
Responsibilities
- Experience implementing solutions such as Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk ITSI, Elastic, Grafana, and/or LogicMonitor.
- Practical knowledge of cloud-native observability solutions like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack.
- Familiarity with public cloud monitoring solutions (AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite).
- Strong understanding of infrastructure fundamentals: distributed systems, networking, databases.
- Knowledge of ITSM processes, DevOps, and SRE methodologies.
- Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
Qualifications
- Deploy, configure, and maintain observability platforms and solutions, ensuring system scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Develop monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions aligned with business requirements and operational KPIs.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to integrate observability into workflows and operational processes.
- Create and optimize custom dashboards, alerts, and automated AIOps routines.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues and anomalies.
- Document observability systems, solutions, and operational procedures thoroughly.
- Participate actively in ongoing training, stay updated on technology trends, and continuously improve personal skillsets and certifications.
- Exposure to container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- General software engineering and scripting proficiency (Python, Java, .NET).
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Top Skills
.Net
Ansible
Aws Cloudwatch
Azure Monitor
Datadog
Docker
Dynatrace
Elastic
Elk Stack
Gcp Operations Suite
Grafana
Java
Kubernetes
New Relic
Opentelemetry
Prometheus
Python
Splunk Itsi
Terraform
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