Monitoring & Observability Architect

Overview

Acuity is an award-winning consulting firm that provides proven management and technological services to the Federal government. Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the Washington Business Journal for over five years in a row, we are hiring a Monitoring & Observability Architect to further assist and join in our growth.

• Architect enterprise-wide observability solutions using platforms like Splunk, New Relic, or Solar Winds.
• Design "Proactive Mission Assurance" dashboards and alerting frameworks for high-visibility federal missions.
• Technical implementation of automated remediation workflows triggered by observability events.
• Lead the integration of logging and monitoring across on-premises data centers and Gov Cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to align monitoring strategies with NIST 800-53 continuous monitoring controls.
• Define standards for application tracing, log aggregation, and real-time metric collection.
• Provide technical oversight for the implementation of AIOps and advanced analytics within monitoring tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and systems engineering.
• 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-level monitoring or observability solutions.
• Deep expertise in data visualization, log management, and system performance metrics.

• Federal & Security: CISSP.
• Domain-Specific: Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect or New Relic Certified Observability Practitioner.
• Architecture/Management: TOGAF or AWS Solutions Architect Professional.

• Monitoring Tools:
  Splunk, New Relic, Solar Winds, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Logging: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Fluentd.
• Tracing:
  Jaeger, Honeycomb, AWS X-Ray.
• Scripting:
  Python, Go, Power Shell for custom monitoring plugins.

• Demonstrated expertise in applying NIST 800-53 continuous monitoring (CA) controls.
• Technical implementation of FedRAMP Moderate/High security baselines for SaaS monitoring tools.
• Experience with the Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) standards.

• Active security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) or eligibility to obtain one.

Acuity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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