What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Monitoring & Observability Engineer position at Danta Technologies?
Employment Eligibility Statement
Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) . Sponsorship is not available at this time.
Danta Technologies evaluates all candidates in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and EEOC guidelines . All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Job Title: IT Monitoring & Observability Engineer
Location: Jackson, MI 49201-Onsite position
Contract: 6 Months & Extendable
Pay rate - $44/hr on W2/Danta Technologies payroll (OR) $50/hr on C2C
Position Summary
We are seeking an IT Monitoring / Full-Stack Observability Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise monitoring solutions across on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. This role will be responsible for delivering end-to-end observabilitycovering infrastructure, applications, services, logs, metrics, traces, and alertingwith a primary focus on SolarWinds (self-hosted) for on-prem monitoring and Azure Monitor for cloud monitoring.
The ideal candidate has strong technical depth in monitoring architecture, alert strategy, dashboarding, and operational response, and can partner with infrastructure, application, and security teams to ensure high availability and performance.
Key Responsibilities
Network devices (SNMP/WMI/ICMP), routers/switches/firewalls
Windows/Linux servers
VMware/Hyper-V and storage platforms (as applicable)
Azure Monitor Metrics Alerts
Log Analytics Workspaces
Application Insights (where applicable)
Workbooks for visualization and reporting
Maintain runbooks, SOPs, monitoring standards, and service maps.
Ensure monitoring adheres to security and compliance requirements (access controls, logging retention, least privilege).
Required Qualifications
8 years experience in IT monitoring / observability / infrastructure operations in enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience with SolarWinds (Self-Hosted) administration and monitoring configuration.
Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor including Log Analytics, alerts, and workbooks.
Strong Working Knowledge Of
Windows Server and Linux fundamentals
Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, SNMP, firewalls)
Monitoring protocols and methods (SNMP, WMI, agents, APIs, syslog)
Experience building dashboards, defining alert thresholds, tuning signals, and reducing noise.
Proficiency with KQL (Kusto Query Language) for Log Analytics queries.
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across hybrid systems.
Ability to work in on-call/after-hours rotations (as applicable).
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
SolarWinds module experience (as applicable): NPM, SAM, NCM, VMAN, NetFlow, etc.
Azure services monitoring experience: AKS, App Service, Functions, SQL MI/DB, Key Vault, Storage, Front Door, Azure Firewall, etc.
Experience With
Application performance monitoring (APM) concepts (distributed tracing, dependency mapping)
OpenTelemetry instrumentation (helpful but not required)
Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
Knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident/Problem/Change).
Scripting: PowerShell, Python, REST APIs.
Security monitoring collaboration (e.g., SIEM integrations, audit logging, RBAC reviews).
Core Competencies
Monitoring architecture & platform operations
Alert engineering (signal-to-noise optimization)
Visualization and operational reporting
Incident response and cross-team coordination
Hybrid infrastructure understanding (on-prem cloud)
Documentation and continuous improvement mindset
Education / Certifications (Optional)
Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent experience
Preferred Certifications (any Of)
Microsoft (Azure Administrator / Azure Solutions Architect)
SolarWinds training/certification
ITIL Foundation
Notes:- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Benefits: Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.
The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.
Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) . Sponsorship is not available at this time.
Danta Technologies evaluates all candidates in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and EEOC guidelines . All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
Job Title: IT Monitoring & Observability Engineer
Location: Jackson, MI 49201-Onsite position
Contract: 6 Months & Extendable
Pay rate - $44/hr on W2/Danta Technologies payroll (OR) $50/hr on C2C
Position Summary
We are seeking an IT Monitoring / Full-Stack Observability Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise monitoring solutions across on-premises infrastructure and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. This role will be responsible for delivering end-to-end observabilitycovering infrastructure, applications, services, logs, metrics, traces, and alertingwith a primary focus on SolarWinds (self-hosted) for on-prem monitoring and Azure Monitor for cloud monitoring.
The ideal candidate has strong technical depth in monitoring architecture, alert strategy, dashboarding, and operational response, and can partner with infrastructure, application, and security teams to ensure high availability and performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitoring / Observability Platform Ownership
- Own and enhance enterprise monitoring using: SolarWinds (Self-Hosted) for on-prem infrastructure monitoring (network, server, storage, virtualization). Azure Monitor for Azure cloud monitoring (metrics, logs, alerts, workbooks).
- Define and maintain standards for instrumentation, telemetry collection, alerting, and dashboards across hybrid environments. On-Prem Monitoring (SolarWinds)
- Administer and optimize SolarWinds platform components (e.g., Orion modules where applicable).
Network devices (SNMP/WMI/ICMP), routers/switches/firewalls
Windows/Linux servers
VMware/Hyper-V and storage platforms (as applicable)
- Build actionable alerts with escalation policies, suppressions, dependencies, and maintenance windows.
- Troubleshoot polling, credentialing, discovery, and performance issues for SolarWinds services and SQL back-end (as needed).
- Azure Monitoring (Azure Monitor / Log Analytics / Application Insights)
Azure Monitor Metrics Alerts
Log Analytics Workspaces
Application Insights (where applicable)
Workbooks for visualization and reporting
- Create and maintain KQL queries for logs/insights and operational analytics. Establish alert rules for Azure resources (VMs, AKS, App Services, Functions, SQL, Storage, networking, etc.). Full-Stack Observability Practices
- Drive adoption of observability best practices: Golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) SLOs/SLIs (where applicable) Noise reduction and alert fatigue prevention
- Ensure dashboards tell an operational story (health, performance, capacity, and trends). Support incident response by correlating signals across on-prem cloud.
- Automation, Integration & ITSM Automate monitoring configuration and reporting through scripting (PowerShell, Python) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep as appropriate).
- Integrate monitoring alerts with ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow/Jira/Remedy) and collaboration channels (Teams/Email).
- Support continuous improvement through post-incident reviews and monitoring enhancements.
Maintain runbooks, SOPs, monitoring standards, and service maps.
Ensure monitoring adheres to security and compliance requirements (access controls, logging retention, least privilege).
Required Qualifications
8 years experience in IT monitoring / observability / infrastructure operations in enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience with SolarWinds (Self-Hosted) administration and monitoring configuration.
Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor including Log Analytics, alerts, and workbooks.
Strong Working Knowledge Of
Windows Server and Linux fundamentals
Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, SNMP, firewalls)
Monitoring protocols and methods (SNMP, WMI, agents, APIs, syslog)
Experience building dashboards, defining alert thresholds, tuning signals, and reducing noise.
Proficiency with KQL (Kusto Query Language) for Log Analytics queries.
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across hybrid systems.
Ability to work in on-call/after-hours rotations (as applicable).
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
SolarWinds module experience (as applicable): NPM, SAM, NCM, VMAN, NetFlow, etc.
Azure services monitoring experience: AKS, App Service, Functions, SQL MI/DB, Key Vault, Storage, Front Door, Azure Firewall, etc.
Experience With
Application performance monitoring (APM) concepts (distributed tracing, dependency mapping)
OpenTelemetry instrumentation (helpful but not required)
Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
Knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident/Problem/Change).
Scripting: PowerShell, Python, REST APIs.
Security monitoring collaboration (e.g., SIEM integrations, audit logging, RBAC reviews).
Core Competencies
Monitoring architecture & platform operations
Alert engineering (signal-to-noise optimization)
Visualization and operational reporting
Incident response and cross-team coordination
Hybrid infrastructure understanding (on-prem cloud)
Documentation and continuous improvement mindset
Education / Certifications (Optional)
Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or equivalent experience
Preferred Certifications (any Of)
Microsoft (Azure Administrator / Azure Solutions Architect)
SolarWinds training/certification
ITIL Foundation
Notes:- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
Benefits: Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law.
The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location.
Salary : $43 - $44