Observability Engineer

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking an Observability Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise monitoring and observability solutions for mission‑critical systems. This role will focus on improving system visibility, reliability, and performance through logging, telemetry, alerting, and dashboard development. The ideal candidate has experience supporting large‑scale production environments and working closely with Dev Ops, SRE, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure systems are observable, resilient, and operationally efficient.

• Design, implement, and maintain observability and monitoring solutions.
• Manage log collection, ingestion, correlation, and analysis across multiple data sources.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and reporting to monitor system health, performance, and availability.
• Analyze infrastructure, application, and network telemetry to identify issues and trends.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and support incident response activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, and cybersecurity teams to improve monitoring coverage and operational visibility.
• Support SLA and performance objectives through proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Ensure monitoring data is properly collected, tagged, and correlated.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.

• Active TS/SCI clearance
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• 8+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, systems engineering, SRE, platform engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience with log management, telemetry collection, dashboard development, and alerting.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring, including compute, storage, network, and application performance.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and supporting production incident resolution.
• Ability to work in Agile development environments.
• Ability to obtain SAFe Scrum Master certification if not already certified.

• Experience with Open Observe, Fluentd, or other log ingestion technologies.
• Experience with platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, Open Observe, Datadog, Dynatrace, or similar tools.
• Experience with cloud‑based monitoring and automation.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity monitoring or security telemetry initiatives.
• Experience with API integrations and monitoring automation.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted monitoring or AIOps platforms.

Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future.

The base salary range for the tagged location is $120k - $150k. This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full‑time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible employees.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities