Senior Observability Engineer

ASCENDING Inc.

Senior Observability Engineer working remotely on enterprise infrastructure monitoring solutions. Responsible for maintaining the reliability and scalability of log management and observability platforms.

Posted 7/2/2026contractRemote • 🏈 Anywhere in North AmericaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleGrafanaLinuxLogstashPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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
Build and maintain robust monitoring systems using tools like Elk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OTEL and Grafana
Maintain associated documentation as it applies to audit and certification requirements
Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities
Research new monitoring requirements and in many cases write code for that

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent, OR 5+ years of experience
3+ years of experience with monitoring tools as Admin, SME or Architect
Hands-on experience with designing data pipelines using filebeat, Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd
Expert level with either Dynatrace or Elastic
Fluent in writing scripts in Python and (Bash or PowerShell)
Experience in Terraform and Ansible
Very good working knowledge with Linux OS
Good analytical and problem-solving abilities

Benefits

Comp & perks

Mentorship opportunities
Build versatile skills
Commitment to diversity and inclusion

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Hard Skills & Tools

Monitoring and AlertingLog AggregationData Ingestion PipelinesScripting in PythonScripting in BashScripting in PowerShellTerraformAnsibleLinux OSPerformance Analysis

Soft Skills

Analytical AbilitiesProblem-Solving