RCI-GRD-959-1 Senior Observability Engineer Hybrid NJ PA

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Job Title: Senior Observability Engineer (AppD Focused)

Location: Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA. 2 days in Holmdel (Wed & Thurs required) or 3 days in Bethlehem.

We will only consider local candidates. No remote or relocation candidates.

Work Authorization:

The role has a preference for candidates who are eligible to convert to full-time without requiring sponsorship (e.g., U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders). However, we are open to considering for a pure contract engagement (6 months with the possibility to extend)

About the Role:

• We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Senior Observability Engineer to join our Enterprise Observability Engineering team. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and AWS-native services, along with strong DevOps experience.
• This role is responsible for the administration, configuration, implementation, and ongoing optimization of observability platforms that enable end-to-end visibility across applications, infrastructure, and cloud-native workloads. You will play a critical role in ensuring platform reliability, performance, and actionable insights to support engineering and business teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Observability Platform Administration & Implementation

• Administer, configure, and support AppDynamics, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry (OTel) platforms to meet enterprise monitoring and observability needs.
• Design and implement observability solutions aligned to MELT (Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces) best practices.
• Perform regular upgrades, patching, and security hardening of observability platforms.

Monitoring, Reliability & Maintenance

• Continuously monitor the health, availability, and performance of observability platforms.
• Ensure data integrity, retention, and availability across metrics, logs, and traces.
• Proactively identify and remediate platform performance, scalability, and reliability issues.

Cloud & Full-Stack Observability

• Implement and support observability for AWS services, including:
• EKS, ECS, Lambda Functions
• SNS/SQS, S3, CloudWatch

Deliver full-stack observability, including:

• Kubernetes cluster and workload metrics
• Service discovery, events, and application performance data
• Leverage OpenTelemetry for instrumentation, context propagation, collectors, and sampling strategies.

Dashboard, Alerting & Reporting

• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and alerts in AppDynamics and Splunk.
• Collaborate with application, platform, and DevOps teams to define meaningful monitoring and alerting standards.
• Reduce noise through alert tuning and promote actionable signal over raw data.

DevOps & Automation

• Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and automation frameworks.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, JavaScript, or Bash to streamline onboarding, configuration, and maintenance activities.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Experience:

• 5–7 years of experience in Observability, Monitoring, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing, managing, and maintaining AppDynamics, Splunk, and Open Telemetry in enterprise environments.

Technical Skills:

Observability Platforms:

• AppDynamics (APM, dashboards, alerts)
• Splunk (configuration, administration, data onboarding)
• OpenTelemetry (instrumentation, collectors, sampling)

AWS Cloud Services:

• EKS, ECS, Lambda
• SNS/SQS, S3, CloudWatch

DevOps & CI/CD:

• GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices

Observability Concepts:

• Strong expertise in Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)
• Full-stack and cloud-native observability

Automation & Scripting:

• Python, JavaScript, Bash