Senior Observability Engineer (ESS Platform SME)

Han IT Staffing

🇺🇸 United States

On-site

Senior

4 weeks ago

Elastic Stack
Kubernetes
Microservices
Elasticsearch
Logstash
Kibana
Elastic
OpenShift
CI/CD
Python
Groovy

4 weeks ago

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Job Title: Senior Observability Engineer (ESS Platform SME)
Location: On-site – McLean, Virginia / Plano , TX 3 days onsite.

Role Overview:
We are seeking ahighly experienced Senior Observability Engineer with deep expertise in ESS (Elastic Stack) to lead and accelerate the development of enterprise-grade observability capabilities across mission-critical applications.
This role requires a hands-on SME who candesign, build, and scale observability dashboards, APM, tracing, and monitoring solutions exclusively within ESS. The candidate will play a key role in transforming current monitoring into aproactive, intelligent, and scalable observability ecosystem.
This is ahigh-impact, fast-paced engagement (target< 6 months) requiring ownership, technical depth, and execution excellence.

Key Responsibilities:
ESS Observability Architecture & Implementation

Design and implementend-to-end observability solutions using ESS (Elastic Stack).
Build acentralized observability layer covering all MF applications.
Ensureblock-level aggregation with drill-down to:
- Application-level metrics
- APM traces
- Logs and events
- Service dependencies

Dashboard Engineering (Critical Priority)

Develop and scale alarge backlog of ESS dashboards, including but not limited to:
- Cluster Health (OCP/K8s)
- API & APM Dashboards
- Service Health & Dependency Monitoring
- Pod Status / Restart / Scaling Metrics
- HTTP Status Analytics (200/400/500 trends)
- Transaction Processing Metrics
- Infra Metrics (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
- Synthetic Monitoring & Availability
Buildintuitive, drill-down dashboards from MF Block → Service → Application level.

APM, Tracing & Monitoring Expansion

Expand ESS-based:
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Distributed tracing
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Synthetic monitoring
Enableend-to-end traceability across microservices.

Proactive Observability & Alerting

Design and implementsmart alerting rules:
- Move from reactive → proactive detection
- Reduce noise, improve signal quality
DefineSLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Enhance anomaly detection and trend analysis

Collaboration & Leadership

Work closely with:
- EOT Observability Team
- Internal CDLs
- Application teams
Act asESS Observability SME
Provideguidance, standards, and best practices

Required Skills & Experience:

Strong hands-on experience withESS (Elastic Stack):
- Elasticsearch
- Logstash
- Kibana
- Beats / Elastic Agent
- Elastic APM
Proven experience buildingenterprise-scale observability dashboards in ESS
Deep understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- Kubernetes / OpenShift (OCP)
Experience with:
- APM, distributed tracing, logging, metrics correlation
Ability to designmulti-layer observability (infra → platform → app)

Strongly Preferred:

Experience with:
- Synthetic monitoring tools integrated with ESS
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Service maps and dependency graphs
Knowledge of:
- CI/CD observability integration
- Alerting frameworks within Elastic
Scripting: Python / Shell / Groovy (nice to have)

Soft Skills:

Strong ownership mindset
Ability to work under aggressive timelines
Excellent problem-solving skills
Clear communication with technical and non-technical teams

Senior Observability Engineer (ESS Platform SME) · Han IT Staffing

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