Observability Engineer
Spectraforce
US
Remote
6 days ago
Job Description
Job Title: Observability Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 10 Months
Overview
The Observability Engineer is responsible for helping migrate from SignalFX to Datadog stakeholders through a value-driven migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g., SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud) to modern observability solutions such as Datadog. This role emphasizes rationalization, optimization, and enablement—ensuring that migrated dashboards and metrics are cost-efficient.
Key Responsibilities
Assessment & Rationalization
Required Skills & Experience:
Preferred Qualifications:
Engagement Flow Example
1. Mapping: Align legacy dashboards with Datadog’s AWS-native templates.
2. Rationalization: Recommend migration priorities and dashboard retirement.
3. Implementation: Collaborate with teams on efficient migration execution.
4. Enablement: Train stakeholders on dashboard creation, maintenance, and optimization.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 70.00/hr.
Location: Remote
Duration: 10 Months
Overview
The Observability Engineer is responsible for helping migrate from SignalFX to Datadog stakeholders through a value-driven migration from legacy monitoring platforms (e.g., SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud) to modern observability solutions such as Datadog. This role emphasizes rationalization, optimization, and enablement—ensuring that migrated dashboards and metrics are cost-efficient.
Key Responsibilities
Assessment & Rationalization
- Work with customers to help them decide which dashboards to migrate,
- refactor, or retire based on business impact.
- Map legacy dashboards to Datadog’s native templates and features.
- Leverage AWS integrations and out-of-the-box dashboards to reduce custom build effort.
- Educate Infra, App, and DevOps teams on Datadog’s capabilities and best practices.
- Ability to collaboratively train and document supporting long-term dashboard ownership.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven expertise in Datadog, including AWS integrations and dashboard templating.
- Experience with SignalFX/Splunk Observability Cloud and legacy monitoring paradigms.
- Experience working across Infra, App, and DevOps teams to create relevant metrics.
- Experience with applying SRE concepts
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture and cloud-native observability.
- Strong understanding of monitoring distributed systems
- Familiarity with OpenShift or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Ansible
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code concepts
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry
- 3 years of Python development experience
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certifications in Datadog, AWS, or related observability platforms.
- Experience in enterprise-scale monitoring transformations.
Engagement Flow Example
1. Mapping: Align legacy dashboards with Datadog’s AWS-native templates.
2. Rationalization: Recommend migration priorities and dashboard retirement.
3. Implementation: Collaborate with teams on efficient migration execution.
4. Enablement: Train stakeholders on dashboard creation, maintenance, and optimization.
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 70.00/hr.