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Observability Engineer

Iselin, New Jersey

Hybrid

Contract

$70/hr - $90/hr

Observability Engineer

**Location:** Iselin, NJ (3 days onsite)

**Employment:** Long-term contract through March 2027

Overview

Looking for an experienced Observability Engineer to build, enhance, and support enterprise-wide observability across applications, services, and platforms. This role is responsible for establishing scalable, standardized monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks on the TCOO OpenShift Kubernetes environment to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities** **Platform Engineering

+ Design, deploy, and manage the enterprise observability platform on OpenShift/Kubernetes.

+ Ensure services and pipelines have proper monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.

+ Build and maintain centralized dashboards for metrics, alerts, and KPIs.

+ Improve platform scalability, reliability, availability, and overall performance.

Standards & Integration

+ Define and maintain standardized observability contracts for development and platform teams.

+ Integrate observability capabilities with enterprise tools and operational systems.

+ Support engineers in designing observability for their services and help product teams define meaningful KPIs.

+ Ensure observability processes comply with enterprise governance and controls.

Automation & DevOps

+ Build IaC and deployment pipelines to automate observability platform operations.

+ Modernize processes and improve automation around observability workflows.

+ Contribute documentation, training, and operational runbooks.

Required Technical Skills** **Core Observability Skills

+ Strong background in building and maintaining observability platforms.

+ Expertise in centralized dashboards, monitoring, heartbeat checks, infrastructure monitoring, APM, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.

+ Ability to enforce observability standards across engineering teams.

+ Hands-on experience with platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, ELK/Elastic Stack, and SigNoz.

Additional Skills

+ Kubernetes / OpenShift

+ Argo CD

+ Infrastructure as Code

+ Git, Ansible, Bash, and general operational tooling

Qualifications

+ 7+ years in engineering, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or observability-focused roles

+ Proven experience implementing and scaling observability systems in large enterprises

+ Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD pipelines

+ Excellent communication and collaboration with cross-functional technical teams

You will receive the following benefits:

+ Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

+ Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

+ Vision Benefits

+ Health Savings Account (HSA)

+ Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

+ Hospital Indemnity Insurance

+ 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

+ Paid Sick Time Leave

+ Legal and Identity Protection Plans

+ Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

+ 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

**Posted by:** Jon Szynalski

Specialization:

+ DevOps