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 DevOps, SRE, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure systems are observable, resilient, and operationally efficient.
Key Responsibilities- 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, DevOps, 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.
Required Qualifications - 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.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with OpenObserve, Fluentd, or other log ingestion technologies.
- Experience with platforms such as Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, OpenObserve, 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.
