Observability Engineer
Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania • Contract • 8am to 5pm
About the role
Assist in the migration of observability assets and telemetry workflows from Honeycomb to Splunk Observability Cloud. Assess, document, and translate existing dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and other monitoring configurations. Design and implement observability solutions utilizing OpenTelemetry standards and best practices. Partner with enterprise engineering, SRE, and platform teams to validate telemetry quality, monitoring coverage, and operational readiness. Identify opportunities to improve observability maturity, reliability, and operational efficiency during the migration. Develop documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and migration playbooks. Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the migration of observability assets and telemetry workflows from Honeycomb to Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Assess, document, and translate existing dashboards, alerts, SLOs, and other monitoring configurations.
- Design and implement observability solutions utilizing OpenTelemetry standards and best practices.
- Partner with enterprise engineering, SRE, and platform teams to validate telemetry quality, monitoring coverage, and operational readiness.
- Identify opportunities to improve observability maturity, reliability, and operational efficiency during the migration.
- Develop documentation, knowledge transfer materials, and migration playbooks.
- Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Robust technical, analytical, and communication skills.
- Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience with Splunk Observability Cloud, including dashboards, detectors, APM, infrastructure monitoring, and related capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with Honeycomb, including telemetry analysis, dashboards, and operational workflows.
- Experience implementing and supporting OpenTelemetry instrumentation, collection, and telemetry pipelines.
- Experience working with distributed systems, cloud-native applications, APIs, and microservices environments.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and leadership teams.
- Experience documenting technical solutions and communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree.
Pay
$51.78 - 56.78 per hour
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
- AD&D and life insurance.
- Short-term disability.
- 401K plan (eligibility-based).