What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Observability Engineer position at Trident Consulting?
Trident Consulting is seeking a "Senior Observability Engineer” for one of our client in "Location: Holmdel, NJ & Bethlehem, PA”. A global leader in business and technology services.
Role: Senior Observability Engineer
Location: Holmdel, NJ & Bethlehem, PA
Work Type: Hybrid (2–3 days onsite weekly)
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
Rate: $85-90/hr. on W2
Eligibility: Only local candidates. No remote or relocation candidates
Position Summary
- Seeking a Senior Observability Engineer with strong expertise in AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, AWS, and DevOps automation to support enterprise observability and monitoring initiatives.
- The role focuses on implementing and optimizing full-stack observability solutions across cloud-native applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support: AppDynamics, Splunk, OpenTelemetry (OTel)
- Implement MELT-based observability solutions: Metrics, Events, Logs, Traces
- Support AWS services including: EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS/SQS, S3, Build dashboards, alerts, and monitoring standards
- Integrate observability into CI/CD pipelines using: GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD
- Automate monitoring workflows using: Python, Bash, JavaScript,
- Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and application performance issues
- Support incident response, RCA, and operational reliability
Mandatory Skills
- AppDynamics Administration & APM
- Splunk Administration & Data Onboarding
- OpenTelemetry (Instrumentation, Collectors, Sampling)
- AWS Cloud Services (EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch)
- Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Observability
- MELT Observability Concepts
- CI/CD & DevOps Tools (GitHub, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Python / Bash / JavaScript Scripting
- Monitoring, Alerting & Dashboarding
- Infrastructure & Application Performance Monitoring
Required Experience
- 5–7 years in: Observability Engineering, Monitoring, SRE, Platform Engineering
- Strong experience in enterprise observability implementations
- Experience with cloud-native and full-stack monitoring environments
About Trident Consulting
Trident Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm headquartered in San Ramon, CA. Since 2005, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to deliver high-quality talent across technology, engineering, business operations, and professional services.
We specialize in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire placements, supporting roles across IT, data & analytics, cloud, cybersecurity, finance & accounting, HR, operations, and more. With a strong focus on hard-to-fill and niche positions, our global recruiting engine enables us to deliver speed, quality, and scale
Salary : $85 - $90