Observability Engineer

Pay: $75-85/hour W2

Benefits

• Health, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance (after a qualification period)

Schedule

• Hybrid role in Dallas, TX (onsite work required 3 days a week)
• Contract-to-hire; candidates must be willing to convert to permanent

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Observability Engineer to join our Observability Engineering team. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and automating enterprise observability solutions with a primary focus on Grafana, OpenTelemetry, monitoring, alerting, and telemetry management. The ideal candidate has strong experience building and operating observability platforms at scale, automating infrastructure through Terraform, and enabling application and infrastructure teams to adopt standardized observability practices. This role will play a key part in modernizing observability capabilities and driving migration from legacy monitoring tools to Grafana-based solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, operations, or platform engineering
• Hands-on experience administering Grafana in large-scale enterprise environments
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions
• Experience with OpenTelemetry concepts, instrumentation, and telemetry pipelines
• Strong Linux and cloud platform administration skills
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages
• Knowledge of operational excellence, reliability engineering, and incident management practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience migrating from tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, OpenText OBM, or similar platforms
• Experience with Grafana Alloy, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, or Prometheus
• Experience operating observability platforms in AWS environments
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native observability
• Experience designing enterprise observability strategies and governance models
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices