Senior DevOps Observability Engineer

ASCENDING Inc.

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Posted on: 8/30/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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AnsibleAWSCloudGrafanaJavaJavaScriptLinuxLogstashPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting
Design, configuration and maintenance of log aggregation solution at a large scale
Set up and manage ingestion pipelines and data transformations
Automate tasks and build robust monitoring systems using ELK, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OTEL and Grafana
Write and maintain documentation for audit and certification requirements
Troubleshoot, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities
Research new monitoring requirements and, when needed, write code
Excellent scripting to automate monitoring tasks

BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent, OR 5+ years of experience
3+ years of experience working directly with monitoring tools as Admin/SME/Architect (Dynatrace and/or ELK)
Hands-on experience designing data pipelines using filebeat, Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd
Expert level with either Dynatrace (cloud/on-prem) or Elastic on-prem/cloud
Fluent in scripting languages like Python and Bash/PowerShell
Experience in Terraform and Ansible
Linux OS proficiency; ability to manage infra and apps across multi-cloud environments
Very good analytical and problem-solving/troubleshooting abilities
Knowledge of SNMP, TCP dump and tracing
Knowledge of AIOPS platforms; other scripting experience (JavaScript, Java, PowerShell)