Observability Engineer
Job in
Woodbridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
Listed on 2026-01-12
Listing for:
Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-01-12
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Support, SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Observability Engineer
Location: Iselin, NJ (3 days onsite)
Employment: Long-term contract through March 2027
OverviewLooking for an experienced Observability Engineer to build, enhance, and support enterprise-wide observability across applications, services, and platforms. This role is responsible for establishing scalable, standardized monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks on the TCOO Open Shift Kubernetes environment to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities- Design, deploy, and manage the enterprise observability platform on Open Shift/Kubernetes.
- Ensure services and pipelines have proper monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Build and maintain centralized dashboards for metrics, alerts, and KPIs.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, availability, and overall performance.
- Define and maintain standardized observability contracts for development and platform teams.
- Integrate observability capabilities with enterprise tools and operational systems.
- Support engineers in designing observability for their services and help product teams define meaningful KPIs.
- Ensure observability processes comply with enterprise governance and controls.
- Build IaC and deployment pipelines to automate observability platform operations.
- Modernize processes and improve automation around observability workflows.
- Contribute documentation, training, and operational runbooks.
- Strong background in building and maintaining observability platforms.
- Expertise in centralized dashboards, monitoring, heartbeat checks, infrastructure monitoring, APM, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Ability to enforce observability standards across engineering teams.
- Hands‑on experience with platforms such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Datadog, ELK/Elastic Stack, and Sig Noz.
- Kubernetes / Open Shift
- Argo CD
- Infrastructure as Code
- Git, Ansible, Bash, and general operational tooling
- 7 years in engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, platform engineering, or observability-focused roles
- Proven experience implementing and scaling observability systems in large enterprises
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent communication and collaboration with cross‑functional technical teams
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