Observability Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Observability Engineer for a Contract position.

Rate Range: $65-$70/hr on W2 without benefits, The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors

Title: Observability Engineer

Job Types: Contract

Location: REMOTE

Position Summary: We are seeking a detail-oriented and technically skilled Observability Engineer to join our Reliability Engineering & Operations (REO) team. In this role, you will be responsible for configuring, maintaining, and continuously improving observability stack - spanning monitoring, dashboarding, alerting, and application performance management (APM) across our AWS-hosted production environments. You will lead the standup of our observability capabilities during an active proof-of-concept (PoC) period, establishing the tooling, instrumentation patterns, and alerting standards that the broader REO organization will rely on. This is a practitioner role for someone who is passionate about making complex systems legible - turning raw telemetry into actionable insight.

Required Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in an observability, monitoring, SRE, or DevOps engineering role with a strong focus on instrumentation and telemetry
• Hands-on experience with AWS observability tooling including CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards) and X-Ray (distributed tracing)
• Experience configuring and administering at least one third-party APM or observability platform (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Grafana, or similar)
• Working knowledge of log management and aggregation (e.g., CloudWatch Logs, OpenSearch, Splunk, or similar)
• Experience building operational dashboards that serve diverse audiences including NOC, engineering, and leadership
• Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architectures, and the instrumentation challenges they present
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar for automation and telemetry configuration
• Strong analytical skills and a methodical approach to signal-to-noise optimization in alerting
• Experience working in a HIPAA-regulated or compliance-driven environment

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, SysOps Administrator, or equivalent)
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) for vendor-agnostic instrumentation
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation) for managing observability configuration as code
• Experience supporting Java or .NET-based enterprise SaaS application observability
• Exposure to SLI/SLO frameworks and reliability engineering practices
• Experience in healthcare IT or payer technology environments

Benefits:

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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