U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain required public trust suitability
Bachelor's degree
Minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience
Hands-on expertise in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Strong background in observability and performance monitoring
Responsibilities
Build and administer enterprise monitoring fabric using OCI tools
Deploy APM Service for tracing distributed transactions and microservice latencies
Architect redundant monitoring planes for cross-region resilience
Continuously track disaster recovery health and replication lag
Implement Database Management and Ops Insights for performance detection
Monitor compliance guardrails and security posture
Automate vulnerability assessments and host hygiene
Ingest telemetry for perimeter and API observability
Establish SLIs and SLOs for alert quality
Provide Tier-3 incident triage and maintain operational runbooks
Support compliance and audit log retention for FedRAMP High
Benefits
Remote work flexibility
Opportunity to work on high-consequence, mission-critical systems
Engagement with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies
Focus on compliance with federal security standards
Collaboration with a proactive and skilled team
Full Job Description
Overview
ECS is seeking an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to work remotely.
ECS is seeking a proactive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring & Observability Engineer to support high-consequence, mission-critical DHS systems. This role is designed for a hands-on technical expert who excels in the day-to-day design, implementation, and automation of cloud-native observability, performance telemetry, and security posture monitoring across Gov Cloud environments.
This role is the primary custodian of system visibility, ensuring end-to-end monitoring of production workloads, tracking disaster recovery and replication health between Ashburn and Phoenix, and building a highly resilient monitoring plane that survives regional failures. Responsibilities also include proactively detecting performance regressions across the database and application stack, executing infrastructure-as-code automation, and maintaining strict compliance with federal continuous monitoring and FedRAMP security standards.
Responsibilities of this role include:
Observability Architecture: Build and administer the enterprise monitoring fabric using the Observability Management Platform, OCI Monitoring (MQL), Alarms, Notifications, Events, Logging, and Logging Analytics (confirming service parity in OC2).
Application Performance Monitoring: Deploy the APM Service to trace distributed transactions, synthetic end-user journeys, and microservice latencies across containerized and cloud-native applications.
Cross-Region Resilience: Architect and maintain redundant monitoring planes across Ashburn and Phoenix regions, ensuring alarms, telemetry streams, and dashboards operate independently if either region suffers an outage.
Disaster Recovery Health: Continuously track replication lag across Oracle Data Guard, Object Storage cross-region replication, and Block Volume replicas, automatically reporting on standby readiness and failover test metrics.
Database Fleet Monitoring: Implement Database Management and Ops Insights across Exadata, Base DB Systems, and Autonomous Databases to detect SQL bottlenecks, assess CPU/I/O saturation, and forecast capacity growth.
Security Posture & Drift: Monitor compliance guardrails using Cloudguard and Security zones; track and audit access policies, dynamic groups, and identity domain federation via IAM.
Vulnerability & Host Hygiene: Automate Linux and Windows kernel patching, CVE tracking, and package compliance with OS Management Hub; schedule host and image vulnerability assessments using Vulnerability Scanning.
Perimeter & API Observability: Ingest telemetry and Layer 7 inspect logs from Network Firewall; correlate perimeter traffic with Threat Intelligence feeds; monitor latency, rate limits, and throttling on API Management gateways.
Data Protection & Key Governance: Instrument Data Safe to monitor sensitive data discovery, database masking, and user risk scores; audit cryptographic lifecycle events and secret usage through Key Management.
Alert Quality & SLOs: Establish SLIs, SLOs, and multi-tier severity routing; lead bi-weekly alert noise reduction reviews, ensuring every firing alert correlates directly with actionable operational context.
Infrastructure as Code: Write Python automation leveraging the OCI SDK / Cloud Shell and Terraform / OCI Resource Manager to deploy monitoring configurations, dashboards, and drift detection inventory scripts as code.
Incident Response & Runbooks: Provide Tier-3 incident triage, metric/log correlation, and root cause analysis (RCA); author and maintain standardized operational runbooks for every page-worthy alert.
Compliance & ATO Support: Maintain continuous monitoring reporting and audit log retention aligned with FedRAMP High and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls (AU, SI, CA, and IR families) to support ongoing DHS authorizations to operate (ATO).
External Tool Integrations: Ingest and correlate OCI telemetry into enterprise monitoring platforms such as Splunk and Dynatrace, building unified executive and operational dashboards.
Salary Range: $140,000 - $185,000
General Description of Benefits
U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain the required public trust suitability
Holds a bachelor's degree
A minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience
About ECS
ECS is a leading provider of digital solutions and services to the federal government. The company was founded in 2001 by Roy Kapani and has since grown to become a trusted partner to a wide range of government agencies. ECS offers a broad range of services, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The company has been recognized for its innovative solutions and has won numerous awards, including the AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year award.
