Application Monitoring Engineer

D2 Technical Services•Springfield, MO

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Application Monitoring Engineer to own and evolve our application observability strategy. You'll be the go-to expert for keeping critical business applications visible, healthy, and performant — designing monitoring architecture, driving down mean time to detection and resolution, and mentoring other engineers on observability best practices. This is a largely autonomous role for someone who thinks proactively about failure modes and treats monitoring as a product, not an afterthought.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in application monitoring, observability, or site reliability engineering, with hands-on expertise in at least one major APM platform (Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace) — deep familiarity with more than one is a strong plus
Experience configuring alerts and adjusting thresholds
Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and how to trace a request across services, containers, and cloud infrastructure
Experience with scripting or programming (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate monitoring configuration and build custom integrations
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) is expected
Understanding of the fundamentals of APIs, databases, and networking well enough to diagnose issues across the full stack
You've participated in on-call rotations and incident response processes, and ideally have exposure to complementary tools like Splunk, ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus
Communicate clearly under pressure, can explain a complex incident to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, and take genuine ownership of the systems you monitor
ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) is a plus
Relevant certifications (Datadog, New Relic, AWS/Azure/GCP)

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end application performance monitoring using platforms like Dynatrace, instrumenting applications and services so that the right signals surface before customers notice a problem
Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in partnership with engineering and product teams, and build dashboards and alerting that reduce noise while catching what actually matters
When incidents happen, you'll lead or support triage and root-cause analysis, using distributed tracing and APM data to pinpoint issues across complex, distributed systems.
Drive continuous improvement of the observability stack itself — evaluating new tools, refining alert thresholds, and reducing alert fatigue across the engineering organization
Serve as a technical mentor, helping other engineers build monitoring into their own services from the start rather than bolting it on later
Partner closely with DevOps/SRE, infrastructure, and application development teams to make sure monitoring coverage keeps pace with new deployments and architectural changes