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Title: Observability Engineer
Location: Columbus, OH (4 days onsite)
Duration: 6‑month contract‑to‑hire
Interview: 2 rounds – 1st video 30 minute, 2nd 1 hour onsite
Job Description:
Top Must‑Haves
- Kubernetes experience
- Full‑stack observability experience
- Grafana
Nice to Haves
- Datadog
- Edge compute
- POS experience
About the Role
We’re looking for an Observability Engineer to enhance visibility into restaurant systems by building dashboards, integrating telemetry pipelines, and enabling proactive detection of issues. You’ll work across teams to maintain system stability, ensure reliable data flows, and support production operations.
What You’ll Do
- Build and enhance dashboards based on business needs.
- Monitor and maintain system stability across environments.
- Analyze logs, traces, and metrics; resolve production issues.
- Implement and manage OpenTelemetry pipelines (collectors, receivers, processors, exporters).
- Provide on‑call support on a rotating basis.
- Manage IT projects, documentation, and process improvements.
- Handle ticket queues and coordinate tasks with cross‑functional teams.
- Implement changes with proper testing, validation, and planning.
- Ensure compliance with IT and security policies.
- Stay current on observability and cost‑optimization technologies.
- Use observability tools for proactive alerting, insight generation, and service health monitoring.
- Design new data visibility solutions based on business requirements.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with Splunk, Datadog, Grafana.
- Python scripting skills.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and SQL.
- Restaurant POS experience (preferred).