Senior Observability Engineer - Mclean VA - Onsite

Senior Observability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

* Analyze the existing observability solution deployed in Elastic Cloud and understand the gap.

* Document ideal scenario versus existing deployment and recommend the changes required to bring the Observability solution to improve overall application monitoring.

* Implement end-to-end observability solutions for distributed and cloud-native applications; work with development, infrastructure, and application support teams to streamline application monitoring using Elastic Cloud.

* Develop comprehensive monitoring strategies covering infrastructure, applications, logs, traces, metrics, and user experience.

* Migrate application monitoring from legacy monitoring platforms (Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus) to modern observability platforms such as Dynatrace and Elastic.

* Design and implement Elastic-based monitoring architectures, including data pipelines, storage, APM, dashboards, and advanced analytics.

* Build custom extensions, automated workflows, and synthetic monitoring solutions using Python and JavaScript.

* Integrate observability platforms with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins and related tools) to automate monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

* Configure OpenPipeline, Business Events, anomaly detection, and AI-driven analytics to improve operational visibility.

* Optimize observability platform licensing, data ingestion, and storage costs while maintaining monitoring effectiveness.

* Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to improve application reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

* Conduct dashboard reviews, monitoring assessments, and observability maturity improvements across enterprise applications.

* Support proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, incident response, and continuous service improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

* 9+ years of experience in Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Observability, and Monitoring Engineering.

* Excellent knowledge about deploying observability using OpenTelemetry framework.

* Strong expertise in onboarding applications in Elastic Search ().

* Strong knowledge of:

    * Distributed tracing

    * Log analytics

    * Infrastructure and application monitoring

    * Synthetic monitoring

    * Real User Monitoring (RUM)

* Experience developing automation using Python and JavaScript.

* Experience integrating monitoring platforms with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

* Hands-on experience in implementing Observability for container-based applications.

* Strong understanding of observability architecture, SRE principles, and cloud-native monitoring practices.

* Hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms.

* Knowledge of anomaly detection, OpenPipeline configuration, Business Events, and AI-assisted observability.

* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.

* Experience designing scalable enterprise observability architectures.

* Knowledge of license optimization and observability cost management.

* Experience implementing AI-driven observability and automated incident management.