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Observability Engineer

Global KTech

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Washington, DC

Job description

Job Overview
We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Observability Engineer to join our innovative team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of our complex systems through advanced observability practices. Your expertise will enable us to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize our infrastructure, fostering a resilient and efficient environment. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge tools to enhance system transparency, this opportunity is perfect for you!

US Citizen and Green Card only local candidates C2C

Candidates must live close to the office in Bethesda, MD 20814 ? West Virginia / Washington DC

Duration: 4 months contract - Fully remote

Duties

  • Job Responsibilities:
  • Design/implement automation on AWS cloud to integrate monitoring/alerting that integrates infrastructure and application

Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
  • 5-7 years experience required.
  • Broad knowledge of IT Systems engineering.
  • Coding skills using these languages/tools (python, shell scripting, windows Powershell, java, .net framework ).
  • Extensive understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment methodologies.
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
  • Experience utilizing cloud services (AWS) and ability to quickly learn new cloud services
  • Implement automation to utilize / integrate / provision/ manage/ monitor cloud services (Build infrastructure as code)
  • Experience with building containers on windows base image using .net framework
  • Participate in analysis and design supporting integrating observability into our platform
  • Develop automation with AWS services supporting infrastructure anomaly detection
  • Develop/integrate Open telemetry into infrastructure to enhance observability on the infrastructure as well as on the application
  • Implement best practices to enable observability on a complex platform deployed on AWS infrastructure
  • Design and implement logging standards and metrics with log aggregators such as Splunk and CloudWatch
  • Integrate observability across DynaTrace/Splunk and custom user interfaces
  • Enhance Cloud engineering practice by automating manual business and IT processes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with common Infrastructure as Code services such as CloudFormation, CodePipeline, SSM Automation Documents, Config Rules.
  • Manage assigned project components to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
  • Write unit tests and integration tests to validate infrastructure code
  • Identify engineering defects in the existing code base and constantly improve the code quality
  • Maintain configuration and support documentation.
  • Collaborate regularly in scrum meetings

Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour

Experience:

  • AWS: 5 years (Required)
  • Python: 5 years (Required)
  • cloud: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person