Application Monitoring Engineer

About the role

ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED. We're looking for a Senior Application Monitoring Engineer to own and evolve our application observability strategy. You'll be the go‑to expert for keeping critical business applications visible, healthy, and performant — designing monitoring architecture, driving down mean time to detection and resolution, and mentoring other engineers on observability best practices. This is a largely autonomous role for someone who thinks proactively about failure modes and treats monitoring as a product, not an afterthought.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end‑to‑end application performance monitoring using platforms like Dynatrace, instrumenting applications and services so that the right signals surface before customers notice a problem.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and build dashboards and alerting that reduce noise while catching what actually matters.
• Lead or support incident triage and root‑cause analysis, using distributed tracing and APM data to pinpoint issues across complex, distributed systems.
• Drive continuous improvement of the observability stack — evaluating new tools, refining alert thresholds, and reducing alert fatigue across the engineering organization.
• Serve as a technical mentor, helping other engineers build monitoring into their services from the start rather than bolting it on later.
• Partner closely with DevOps/SRE, infrastructure, and application development teams to ensure monitoring coverage keeps pace with new deployments and architectural changes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in application monitoring, observability, or site reliability engineering.
• Hands‑on expertise with at least one major APM platform (Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace); familiarity with multiple platforms is a strong plus.
• Experience configuring alerts and adjusting thresholds.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and tracing requests across services, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate monitoring configuration and build custom integrations.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of APIs, databases, and networking fundamentals sufficient to diagnose full‑stack issues.
• Participation in on‑call rotations and incident response processes; exposure to tools such as Splunk, ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus is ideal.
• Clear communication under pressure, able to explain complex incidents to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, and take ownership of monitored systems.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Relevant certifications (Datadog, New Relic, AWS/Azure/GCP).

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
• 401(k) match.
• Accrued PTO.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability, Life insurance.
• Referral bonuses.
• Professional development reimbursement.
• Additional benefits as offered.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is typically $150‑175k, based on skills, experience, certifications, and other factors.

Additional Information

D2 Technical Services is a veteran‑owned small business and encourages applications from veterans and all qualified individuals. Reasonable accommodations are available for the application and interview process upon request.