Monitoring Engineer

About the Opportunity

Our client, a leader in the healthcare industry, is seeking a Senior Monitoring Engineer to support and enhance enterprise monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions across a large and complex technology environment. This role will partner closely with infrastructure, networking, application, and engineering teams to design and implement monitoring strategies that improve system reliability, reduce downtime, and strengthen incident response capabilities.
The ideal candidate will bring deep experience with enterprise monitoring platforms, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a passion for building scalable observability solutions that support mission-critical operations.

Project Overview

As a Senior Monitoring Engineer, you will play a key role in improving visibility across critical healthcare systems, applications, infrastructure, databases, and networks. This position will focus on enhancing enterprise monitoring capabilities, implementing modern observability tools, and developing proactive solutions that help identify issues before they impact patient care or business operations.
You will help drive monitoring standardization efforts, support platform modernization initiatives, and collaborate with teams across the organization to ensure monitoring and alerting are built into all new technology deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support enterprise monitoring and alerting solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases, and networks
• Develop monitoring strategies that improve system availability, reliability, and performance
• Implement and maintain dashboards that provide operational visibility across multiple platforms and teams
• Ensure accurate collection, retention, and reporting of metrics for alerting, analysis, and trend reporting
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate monitoring requirements into new deployments and technology initiatives
• Build and maintain reporting solutions that provide insights into operational health and incident trends
• Support incident management processes by ensuring monitoring and alerting systems align with response protocols
• Identify recurring issues and develop proactive solutions to improve system stability
• Maintain platform health through upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and vendor engagement when necessary
• Assist in developing automation, scripting, and self-healing capabilities within the environment
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to fellow engineers and team members

Key Initiatives & Business Impact

• Improve enterprise-wide observability and monitoring maturity
• Increase proactive detection of issues before they impact patient care
• Strengthen incident response and operational awareness across IT teams
• Enhance visibility into mission-critical healthcare systems and infrastructure
• Drive standardization of monitoring tools, processes, and reporting
• Support the reliability and availability of systems serving approximately 2.4 million patients
• Contribute to the continued growth and modernization of a large healthcare technology environment

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise monitoring and observability solutions
• Strong knowledge of network, infrastructure, application, and systems monitoring
• Experience deploying new monitoring tools and improving enterprise-wide observability practices
• Experience with log aggregation or SIEM platforms such as Splunk, LogRhythm, Graylog, ELK, or similar solutions
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Experience working with incident management and operational response processes
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and leadership stakeholders
• Experience creating dashboards, reporting solutions, and performance metrics
• Strong documentation and process improvement experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LogicMonitor, ThousandEyes, BigPanda, ServiceNow AIOps, or similar observability platforms
• Experience supporting tools such as Dynatrace, PagerDuty, VictorOps, SolarWinds, Nagios, Zabbix, Datadog, AppDynamics, or New Relic
• Scripting and automation experience
• Experience developing self-healing capabilities and operational automation
• Healthcare industry experience is a plus

Work Environment

• Full-time permanent opportunity
• Onsite position in Sioux Falls, SD
• Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Two-step interview process consisting of a hiring manager interview followed by a technical interview
• Opportunity to support one of the largest rural healthcare systems in the United States within a highly impactful and mission-driven environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior-level monitoring professional who wants to influence enterprise observability strategy, improve operational excellence, and support technology systems that directly impact patient care and healthcare outcomes.
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Sioux Falls, SD.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $95000.00 - $110000.00/yr.
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Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Sioux Falls,SD.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 31, 2026.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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