Network Observability Engineer- Senior

Title: Network Observability Engineer– Senior

Location: New York City, NY

Duration: Long Term Project

Rate: $50-$55/hr. on C2C

Role overview

Design and implement network observability for the AWS environment and connected on-premises infrastructure. Establish visibility into network health, availability, and service performance throughout migration and production operations.

Experience

5–7 years of AWS cloud experience, network tooling, and observability.

Required qualifications

• Experience integrating network, system, and event logs into enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Ability to create dashboards, alerting frameworks, and performance baselines.
• Practical capability in proactive issue detection and network/service performance analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Define network monitoring and telemetry requirements across cloud and connected on-premises infrastructure.
• Integrate network, system, and event logs into approved monitoring platforms.
• Enable and analyze VPC flow logging with network and security teams to support traffic visibility and least-privilege rule changes.
• Develop dashboards and alerts that show network health, availability, connectivity, and service performance.
• Establish baselines, investigate anomalies, and support proactive issue detection during migration and stabilization.
• Align relevant observability work with the program’s move from Datadog to Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus.
• Validate monitoring and alerting during production readiness and controlled failure testing; document support procedures.

Expected deliverables

• Network telemetry inventory, dashboards, and alerting rules.
• Performance baselines and monitoring validation evidence.
• Observability runbooks and operational handover.

Desired qualifications

• Experience monitoring both AWS and connected on-premises networks in a regulated enterprise.
• Hands-on exposure to VPC Flow Logs, network traffic analysis, Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus.

•          Experience establishing baselines, tuning alerts, correlating telemetry, and validating monitoring during controlled failure tests.

Preferred certifications

•          One or more of the following certifications is desirable. Certifications are preferred, not mandatory, and do not replace demonstrated hands-on experience.

•          AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty.

•          Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise.

•          AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.